Superficial siderosis due to a lumbar ependymoma mimicking adult-onset spinocerebellar ataxia

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 705-707

  Spengos, Konstantinos ^a   Vassilopoulou, Sofia ^a   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Karachalios, Georgios ^a   Vassilopoulos, Demetris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gait disequilibrium; Gradient echo MRI; Lumbar ependymoma; Spinocerebellar ataxia; Superficial siderosis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSMETRIA; EPENDYMOMA; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SIDEROSIS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREMOR;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPENDYMOMA; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIDEROSIS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS;

EID: 34547852350     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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