Usefulness of MR signal intensity in distinguishing benign from malignant pleural disease

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 963-968

  Falaschi, Fabio ^a   Battolla, Luigi ^a   Mascalchi, Mario ^a   Cioni, Roberto ^a   Zampa, Virna ^a   Lencioni, Riccardo ^a   Antonelli, Alessandro ^a   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA CANCER; PLEURA DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029998955     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.166.4.8610582     Document Type: Article

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