Homonymous hemianopsia as the leading symptom of a tumor like demyelinating lesion: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Evangelopoulos, Maria Eleptheria ^a   Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios Stergios ^a   Potagas, Costas ^a   Sfagos, Costantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMEFACTIVE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 77953419079     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9366     Document Type: Article

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