Brain biopsy in cryptogenic neurological disease

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 614-620

  Rice, Claire M ^a   Gilkes, Catherine E ^a   Teare, Emily ^a   Hardie, Richard J ^a   Scolding, Neil J ^a   Edwards, Richard J ^a  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; diagnostic yield; therapeutic impact

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CRYPTOGENIC NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID MENINGITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SUSAC SYNDROME; TOLOSA HUNT SYNDROME; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051864288     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2010.551677     Document Type: Review

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