Intracranial lesions mimicking neoplasms

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-123

  Cunliffe, Clare H ^a,f   Fischer, Ingeborg ^a   Monoky, David ^a   Law, Meng ^a,b   Revercomb, Carolyn ^c   Elrich, Susan ^d   Kopp, Michael Jered ^e   Zagzag, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Washington DC   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOCOCCOMA; DEMYELINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DURA MATER; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA; MENINGIOMA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RADIATION NECROSIS; REVIEW; ROSAI DORFMAN DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SKULL BASE LESION; TAENIA SOLIUM; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; TUBERCULOMA; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 58449098776     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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