Intracranial gumma mimicking a cerebral tumour

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 838-839

  Bandou, Nobuyasu ^a   Kamakura, Naofumi ^b   Yamanishi, Kazunari ^b   Tada, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; OXIDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGITATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DELUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NECK TUMOR; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REAGIN TEST; SALIVARY GLAND BIOPSY; SALIVARY GLAND CARCINOMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DELUSIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SALIVARY GLAND NEOPLASMS; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 49549107322     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670802277313     Document Type: Letter

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