Miliary brain metastasis presenting with dementia: Progression pattern of cancer metastases in the cerebral cortex

Neuropathology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 390-395

  Ogawa, Masaya ^a   Kurahashi, Kozo ^a   Ebina, Akio ^a   Kaimori, Mitsuomi ^a   Wakabayashi, Koichi ^b  

^a AOMORI PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Dementia; Miliary metastasis; Pia mater; Virchow Robin space

Indexed keywords

GEFITINIB;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOMA CELL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISORIENTATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROSCOPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34447302348     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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