A case of meningeal carcinomatosis presenting with bilateral hearing loss

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1385-1389

  Okamoto, Yoko ^a,b   Sugiyama, Hiromichi ^a   Yamamoto, Toru ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI NAKATSU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic nerve tumor; Deafness; Meningeal carcinomatosis; Poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CRANIAL NERVE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL NERVE; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NERVE ROOT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 37349125294     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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