Tumores de los pares craneanos: estudio de 20 casos
Twenty patients with cranial nerves tumors are seen and studied at the San Juan de Dios Hospital National University in Bogota during a period from January 1954 to December 1972. In the same time 612 primary CNS tumors and 103 metastasic were studied in this Center. Amonq the twenty cases, eighteen...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
1973-01-01
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Series: | Revista de la Facultad de Medicina |
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Online Access: | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/revfacmed/article/view/22006 |
Summary: | Twenty patients with cranial nerves tumors are seen and studied at the San Juan de Dios Hospital National University in Bogota during a period from January 1954 to December 1972. In the same time 612 primary CNS tumors and 103 metastasic were studied in this Center. Amonq the twenty cases, eighteen diagnosis of acoustic neurinoma were made; one case was a right trigeminal neurofibroma and the last one is a 22 year-old man suffering generalized neurofibromatosis including both vagus nerves. The clinical and paraclinical findings are analized making special emphasis in the CSF protein level and neuro-radiologic findings. The histopatholoqic changes are described briefly. A review of the literature is done. |
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ISSN: | 0120-0011 2357-3848 |