Intracranial Inflammatory Pseudotumor as a Rare but Pivotal Differential Diagnosis of Neoplastic Tumors^[*]

Keywords

inflammatory pseudotumor - plasma cell granuloma - orbital tumors

^* This article was originally Published online in Central European Neurosurgery on April 16, 2010 (DOI:10.1055/s-0030-1249045)

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