A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-216

  Yomo, Shoji ^a   Tada, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hirayama, Shuichi ^a   Tachibana, Naoko ^a   Otani, Masako ^a   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^a   Hongo, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluid attenuated inversion recovery; Glioblastoma; Meningitis; Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INTERFERON; RANIMUSTINE; THIAMINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GLIA CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEPTOMENINX; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR BIOPSY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

FATAL OUTCOME; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33845700192     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-006-9219-9     Document Type: Article

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