Small cell lung carcinoma presenting with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 83, Issue 987, 2010, Pages

  Summerfield, R ^a   Al Saleh, A ^a   Robbins, S E ^a  

^a ROYAL SHREWSBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77749246604     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/56586752     Document Type: Article

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