Meckel's cave tuberculoma with unusual infratemporal extension

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-268

  Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a   Somasundaram, S ^a   Rao, Ravi M ^a   Radhakrishnan, V V ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Foramen ovale; Meckel's cave; Tuberculoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DESTRUCTION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOTOMY; TUBERCULOMA; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 34347398126     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2007.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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