The successful long-term management of an intracranial inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with corticosteroids

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-79

  Carswell, Christopher ^a   Chataway, Jeremy ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflammatory pseudotumor; Intracranial myofibroblastic tumor; Plasma cell granuloma; Steroid treatment

Indexed keywords

OLIGOCLONAL BAND; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIPLOPIA; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTRACRANIAL INFLAMMATORY MYOFIBROBLASTIC TUMOR; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MENINGITIS; NASAL BIOPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLASMA CELL; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TONGUE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION; VERTIGO;

ABDUCENS NERVE DISEASES; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASES; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 84655167241     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.07.026     Document Type: Article

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