Magnetic resonance imaging of brain abscess with hemorrhage: Implications for the mechanism of hemorrhage - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 516-518

  Terakawa, Yuzo ^a   Takami, Toshihiro ^a   Yamagata, Toru ^b   Saito, Toshio ^b   Nakanishi, Naruhiko ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Higashisumiyoshi Morimoto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Hemorrhage; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREVOTELLA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL SIGN;

AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 36448943625     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.516     Document Type: Article

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