Granulomatosis with CNS involvement: A neuroimaging clinicopathologic correlation

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 194-197

  Baaj, Ali A ^a   Vale, Fernando L ^a   Carter, John D ^b   Rojiani, Amyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinicopathologic correlation; CNS vascultis; Intracranial lesion; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETANERCEPT; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BILATERAL INTERMITTENT SCLERITIS; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EAR CARTILAGE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOMA; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSYPHILIS; NOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SCLERITIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 63149148003     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2008.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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