Cerebral amyloidoma mimicking intracranial tumor: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Cerebral amyloidoma is an infrequently recognized condition that can be confused with a more malignant etiology. Few cases have been reported. We present a case report and a review of the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient was a 64-year-old Caucasian man who was incidentally di...

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Autores principales: Landau, Danny, Avgeropoulos, Nicholas, Ma, Joe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20854655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-308
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description INTRODUCTION: Cerebral amyloidoma is an infrequently recognized condition that can be confused with a more malignant etiology. Few cases have been reported. We present a case report and a review of the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient was a 64-year-old Caucasian man who was incidentally discovered to have a brain mass. He was found to have a cerebral amyloidoma. CONCLUSION: After discovery of the true etiology of his brain abnormality, it was determined that our patient had a more benign disease than was initially feared. Cases such as this demonstrate why consideration of this disorder is important.
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spelling pubmed-29463062010-09-28 Cerebral amyloidoma mimicking intracranial tumor: a case report Landau, Danny Avgeropoulos, Nicholas Ma, Joe J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Cerebral amyloidoma is an infrequently recognized condition that can be confused with a more malignant etiology. Few cases have been reported. We present a case report and a review of the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient was a 64-year-old Caucasian man who was incidentally discovered to have a brain mass. He was found to have a cerebral amyloidoma. CONCLUSION: After discovery of the true etiology of his brain abnormality, it was determined that our patient had a more benign disease than was initially feared. Cases such as this demonstrate why consideration of this disorder is important. BioMed Central 2010-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2946306/ /pubmed/20854655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-308 Text en Copyright ©2010 Landau et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Cerebral amyloidoma mimicking intracranial tumor: a case report
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title_short Cerebral amyloidoma mimicking intracranial tumor: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946306/
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