Intracranial cotton ball gossypiboma mimicking recurrent meningioma: Report of a case with literature review for intentional and unintentional foreign body granulomas
[...]is the following report to reiterate the importance of tissue diagnosis in recurrent tumors presenting with seizures.2 Case report The patient was a 44 year old female who was being considered for stereotactic radiosurgery presented after 6 months of medically intractable partial seizures consi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2012-09, Vol.114 (7), p.1039-1041 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [...]is the following report to reiterate the importance of tissue diagnosis in recurrent tumors presenting with seizures.2 Case report The patient was a 44 year old female who was being considered for stereotactic radiosurgery presented after 6 months of medically intractable partial seizures consisting of brief, intermittent sensory changes in her right arm and leg. [4] MR spectroscopy, however, has the potential to differentiate between tumor and infection/inflammation [4]. [...]it helps in selected cases to identify a recurrent tumor from other lesions. |
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ISSN: | 0303-8467 1872-6968 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.01.046 |