Middle and posterior fossa aspergilloma

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-78

  Alapatt, Jacob P ^a   Kutty, Raja K ^a   Gopi, Priya P ^a   Challissery, Joseph ^a  

^a Medical College Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Aspergilloma; Middle and posterior fossa

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; EAR DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REPEAT PROCEDURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INDIA; MALE; NEUROASPERGILLOSIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OTITIS MEDIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOMA;

EID: 33745221167     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.11.061     Document Type: Article

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