Intraventricular meningioma with fatal haemorrhage: Clinical and autopsy findings

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 884-887

  Romeike, Bernd F M ^a   Joellenbeck, Boris ^b   Skalej, Martin ^b   Scherlach, Cordula ^b   Kirches, Elmar ^b   Mawrin, Christian ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Cerebral ventricle neoplasm; Hydrocephalus; Intracranial haemorrhage; Meningeal neoplasm; Meningioma apoplecticum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVENTRICULAR MENINGIOMA;

BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35349007916     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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