Spontaneous Regression of a Primary Cerebral Tumor Following Vasospasm Caused by Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Rupture of an Intracranial Aneurysm: Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 187-190

  Yamashita, Yoji ^a   Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b   Ezura, Masayuki ^b   Tominaga, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Malignant glioma; Spontaneous regression; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

IOFETAMINE I 123;

ADULT; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TUMOR REGRESSION; VASOSPASM; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 2442511080     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.187     Document Type: Article

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