Serial MRI findings of intracranial tuberculomas: A case report and review of the literature

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-230

  Tsugawa, Jun ^a   Inoue, Hirosato ^b   Tsuboi, Yoshio ^b   Takano, Kohich ^b   Utsunomiya, Hidetsuna ^b   Yamada, Tatsuo ^b  

^a Kawanami Hospital   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MR imaging; Intracranial tuberculoma; Metastatic brain tumor

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 33646056660     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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