Large hypothalamic hamartoma with calcification and cystic components in an adult

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 495-498

  Yamaguchi, Shinya ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi O ^b   Matsuo, Yoshihiro ^a   Uesaka, Toshio ^a   Matsukado, Koichiro ^a   Masui, Kenta ^b   Iwaki, Toru ^b  

^a HAMANOMACHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult type hypothalamic hamartoma; Calcification; Cystic component; Heterotopia; Seizure

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HAMARTOMA; HETEROTOPIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; PERIMETRY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

CALCINOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHORISTOMA; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954509178     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.50.495     Document Type: Article

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