Multiple ring enhancing brain lesions on computed tomography: An Indian perspective

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 92-96

  Garg, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Desai, Parthiv ^a   Kar, Minakshi ^a   Kar, Alok Mohan ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Cysticercosis; Epilepsy; Headache; Neurocysticercosis; Seizure; Tuberculoma

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MANNITOL; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TAENIA SOLIUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BEHCET SYNDROME; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; CHILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIA; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 38749100189     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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