Late-onset multiple sclerosis mimicking brain tumor: A case report

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-86

  Iwamoto, Kazuhisa ^a   Oka, Hidehiro ^a   Utsuki, Satoshi ^a   Ozawa, Tatsuya ^a   Fujii, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Late onset; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Pathology; Tumorlike lesion

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 8744256857     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02484515     Document Type: Article

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