Enlarged perivascular spaces mimicking multicystic brain tumors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1142-1146

  Rohlfs, Jochen ^a   Riegel, Thomas ^a   Khalil, Munzir ^a   Iwinska Zelder, Joanna ^a   Mennel, Hans Dieter ^a   Bertalanffy, Helmut ^a   Hellwig, Dieter ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Neuroendoscopic surgery; Virchow Robin space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROENDOSCOPIC CYSTOCISTERNOSTOMY; NEUROENDOSCOPIC VENTRICULOCYSTOSTOMY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRCHOW ROBIN SPACE CYST; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPE; PATHOLOGY; THALAMUS;

BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; THALAMUS;

EID: 23144466255     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.6.1142     Document Type: Review

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