Dark ring sign: Finding in patients with fungal liver lesions and transfusional hemosiderosis undergoing treatment with antifungal antibiotics

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 615-618

  Kelekis, Nikolaos L ^a   Semelka, Richard C ^a   Jeon, Hae Jeong ^a   Sallah, Ahmed S ^a   Shea, Thomas C ^a   Woosley, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifungal antibiotics; Fungal liver lesions

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ITRACONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER GRANULOMA; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0029911337     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0730-725X(96)00090-2     Document Type: Article

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