Monofocal acute inflammatory demyelination manifesting as open ring sign

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 353-357

  Akimoto, Jiro ^a   Nakajima, Nobuyuki ^a   Saida, Akihiko ^a   Haraoka, Jo ^a   Kudo, Motoshige ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demyelinating disease; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pathology

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELIN; THALLIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CRANIOTOMY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PARIETAL LOBE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33746466991     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.353     Document Type: Article

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