Open biopsy in patients with acute progressive neurologic decline and absence of mass lesion

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 419-424

  Schuette, Albert J ^a   Taub, Jason S ^a   Hadjipanayis, Costas G ^a   Olson, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 77955374452     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181eb5889     Document Type: Article

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