Enlargement of the spinal cord: Inflammation or neoplasm?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 284-289

  Brinar, Marko ^a   Radoš, Marko ^a   Habek, Mario ^a   Poser, Charles M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disseminated encephalomyelitis; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Spinal cord tumours; Spinal demyelination

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644630874     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.11.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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