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A 75-year-old man presented with acute onset of left hemiparesis accompanied by central facial palsy. The patient’s chest X-ray showed a mass in the left lower lobe consistent with bronchogenic carcinoma.

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  1. Diagnostic and Therapeutics Neuroradiolgy, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Menéndez Pidal, 14004, Córdoba, Spain

    Francisco de Asís Bravo-Rodríguez

  2. Department of Radiology, Alto Guadalquivir Hospital, Av. Blas Infante s/n, 23740, Andújar, Jaén, Spain

    Rocío Díaz-Aguilera

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  2. Alta Gualdalquivir Hospital, Av. Blas Infante, Jaen, 23215, Spain

    Rocío Diaz-Aguilera

  3. CDPI - Multi-Imagen Ressonância Magnétic, Rua Almirante Saddock de Sá 266 Ipanema 266, Rio de Janeiro, 22411-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    L. Celso Hygino Cruz Jr.

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de Asís Bravo-Rodríguez, F., Díaz-Aguilera, R. (2012). Brain Tumors. In: Bravo-Rodríguez, F., Diaz-Aguilera, R., Hygino Cruz Jr., L. (eds) Learning Neuroimaging. Learning Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22999-2_1

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