A case of cardiac myxoma presenting with multiple cerebellar hemorrhages and elevation of interleukin-6 in the cerebrospinal fluid

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 677-681

  Yaguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Murakami, Yasuo ^a   Sengoku, Renpei ^a   Sato, Hironori ^a   Inoue, Kiyoharu ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain hemorrhage; Cardiac myxoma; Cerebral aneurysm; Interleukin 6; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; HEADACHE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MYXOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYXOMA;

EID: 9144253982     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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