Co-existing spinal canal tumours and CADASIL - A diagnostic challenge

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 526-529

  Skowrońska, Marta ^a,b   Lewandowska, Eliza ^a   Członkowska, Anna ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

CADASIL; Spinal canal tumour hydrocephalus; WMH

Indexed keywords

NOTCH3 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CADASIL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SKIN BIOPSY; SPINE TUMOR;

CADASIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846193588     PISSN: 00283843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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