Isolated neurosarcoidosis presenting as headache and multiple brain and spinal cord lesions mimicking central nervous system metastases

Brain and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 514-518

  Tsao, Chang Yong ^a   Lo, Warren D ^a   Rusin, Jerome A ^a   Henwood, Maria J ^a   Boue, Daniel R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system metastases; Headache; Neurosarcoidosis; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DESMOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD LESION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DIABETES INSIPIDUS, NEUROGENIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDNISONE; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34547650737     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2006.12.011     Document Type: Article

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