Intracranial Capillary Hemangioma in the Posterior Fossa of an Adult Male

Intracranial capillary hemangioma (ICH) is a rare entity, with approximately 24 reported cases in the literature. There are only three reported cases of ICH in an adult male. In this case report, we describe the fourth documented case of ICH in an adult male and, to the best of our knowledge, the fi...

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Autores principales: Nepute, Jordan, Lai, Jinping, Zhou, Yihua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5055928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27747124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6434623
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description Intracranial capillary hemangioma (ICH) is a rare entity, with approximately 24 reported cases in the literature. There are only three reported cases of ICH in an adult male. In this case report, we describe the fourth documented case of ICH in an adult male and, to the best of our knowledge, the first ever documented case of ICH in the posterior fossa of an adult male. We also discuss its imaging appearance and differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-50559282016-10-16 Intracranial Capillary Hemangioma in the Posterior Fossa of an Adult Male Nepute, Jordan Lai, Jinping Zhou, Yihua Case Rep Radiol Case Report Intracranial capillary hemangioma (ICH) is a rare entity, with approximately 24 reported cases in the literature. There are only three reported cases of ICH in an adult male. In this case report, we describe the fourth documented case of ICH in an adult male and, to the best of our knowledge, the first ever documented case of ICH in the posterior fossa of an adult male. We also discuss its imaging appearance and differential diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5055928/ /pubmed/27747124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6434623 Text en Copyright © 2016 Jordan Nepute et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Intracranial Capillary Hemangioma in the Posterior Fossa of an Adult Male
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title_fullStr Intracranial Capillary Hemangioma in the Posterior Fossa of an Adult Male
title_full_unstemmed Intracranial Capillary Hemangioma in the Posterior Fossa of an Adult Male
title_short Intracranial Capillary Hemangioma in the Posterior Fossa of an Adult Male
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5055928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27747124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6434623
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