Miliary brain metastases from adenocarcinoma of the lung: MR imaging findings with clinical and post-mortem histopathologic correlation

Neuroradiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-39

  Iguchi, Yohei ^a   Mano, Kazuo ^a   Goto, Yoji ^a   Nakano, Tomonobu ^a   Nomura, Fumio ^a   Shimokata, Tomoya ^a   Iwamizu Watanabe, Sachiko ^b   Hashizume, Yoshio ^c  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disturbance of consciousness; Lung adenocarcinoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Miliary brain metastases; Papillary adenocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; PACLITAXEL;

AGED; AKINETIC MUTISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN STEM; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEATH; DISORIENTATION; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLIOSIS; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; AUTOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33846098722     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-006-0152-6     Document Type: Article

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