Deep cerebral vein thrombosis misdiagnosed as tumour

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 861-862

  Heckman, Josef G ^a   Richter, G ^a   Struffert, T ^a   Schwab, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PHENPROCOUMON; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; APHASIA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP CEREBRAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLURRED SPEECH; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CEREBRAL VEINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; THALAMIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57149092821     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.058057     Document Type: Letter

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