Intracranial tuberculoma simulating a malignant tumor: Case report and literature review;Tuberculoma intracraneal simulando neoplasia maligna. caso clinico y revision de la literature

Neurocirugia

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 600-604

  Alvarez Salgado J A ^a   Ruiz Gines J A ^a   Fuentes Ventura, C D ^a   Gonzales Sejas, A G ^a   Belinchon de Diego J M ^a   Fernández de Mesa, González Llanos ^a   Rodriguez de Lope Llorca A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL VIRGEN DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone infiltration; Brain; PCR; Surgery; Tuberculoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; METASTASIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SKULL;

BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 84857089544     PISSN: 11301473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S1130-14732011000600016     Document Type: Review

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