CT-guided stereotactic biopsy of nonenhancing brain lesions

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 105-117

  Perez Cruet, Miquelangelo J ^a   Adelman, Lester ^b   Anderson, Mary ^b   Roth, Patrick A ^b   Ritter, Ann M ^a   Saris, Stephen C ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Brain lesions; Brain tumor; Glioma; Nonenhancing; Stereotactic biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; SEIZURE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS DEMENTIA COMPLEX; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0027766205     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: 14230372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100629     Document Type: Article

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