Thorotrast-induced primary cerebral angiosarcoma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Balamurali, Gopalakrishnan ^a,c   Du Plessis, Daniel G ^a   Wengoy, Moses ^a   Bryan, Nicholas ^b   Herwadkar, Amit ^a   Richardson, Peter L ^a  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Brain abscess; Thorium dioxide; Thorotrast

Indexed keywords

THORIUM DIOXIDE;

AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEAKNESS;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; THORIUM DIOXIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651154695     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000348294.05571.D9     Document Type: Article

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