Adrenal masses in patients with malignancy: Prospective comparison of echo-planar, fast spin-echo, and chemical shift MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 421-425

  Schwartz, Lawrence H ^a,b   Panicek, David M ^a,b   Koutcher, Jason A ^a,b   Brown, Karen T ^a,b   Getrajdman, George I ^a,b   Heelan, Robert T ^a,b   Burt, Michael ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland, MR; Adrenal gland, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CANCER; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028875331     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.197.2.7480686     Document Type: Article

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