Intravascular lymphomatosis mimicking disseminated encephalomyelitis and encephalomyelopathy

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 486-489

  Gaul, Charly ^a,b   Hanisch, Frank ^a   Neureiter, Daniel ^c   Behrmann, Curd ^b   Neundörfer, Bernhard ^a   Winterholler, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intravascular lymphomatosis; Neurological manifestations

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOMATOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEIGH DISEASE; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646538125     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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