Glioblastoma masquerading as a hypertensive putaminal hemorrhage: A diagnostic pitfall - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 427-429

  Inamasu, Joji ^a   Kuramae, Takumi ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masashi ^a  

^a Imperial Foundation Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Diagnosis; Hypertension; Intratumoral hemorrhage; Putaminal hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAIT DISORDER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMATOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; WALKING AID;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DACARBAZINE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FATAL OUTCOME; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUTAMINAL HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 70350074149     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.427     Document Type: Article

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