Nocardia brain abscess mimicking high-grade necrotic tumor on perfusion MRI

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1080-1082

  Cianfoni, Alessandro ^a,b   Calandrelli, Rosalinda ^a   Bonis, Pasquale De ^a   Pompucci, Angelo ^a   Lauriola, Libero ^a   Colosimo, Cesare ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral abscesses; Cystic brain tumors; Diffusion weighted MRI; Perfusion weighted MRI

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; CYSTIC BRAIN TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEVER; GLIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NOCARDIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC BRAIN ABSCESS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINALYSIS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NECROSIS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 77953871956     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2009.10.039     Document Type: Article

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