Clinicoradiological presentation, management options and a review of sellar and suprasellar tuberculomas

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1560-1566

  Behari, Sanjay ^a   Shinghal, Udit ^a   Jain, Manoj ^a   Jaiswal, Awadhesh K ^a   Wadwekar, Vaibhav ^a   Das, K B ^a   Jha, Sanjeev ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Antituberculous therapy; Endocrinopathy; Sella; Suprasellar region; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKULL INJURY; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOMA; VISUAL DISORDER; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOSCOPES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL BASE; TUBERCULOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350721643     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2008.12.032     Document Type: Article

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