Localized benign fibrous tumors of the pleura: MR appearance

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-120

  Ferretti, Gilbert R ^a,b   Chiles, Caroline ^b   Cox, Joseph E ^b   Choplin, Robert H ^b   Coulomb, Max ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Mesothelioma; Pleura, diseases; Pleura, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; TUMORS;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CT-SCAN IMAGES; LARGE DIAMETER; LOCALISED; LOW SIGNAL INTENSITY; MESOTHELIOMA; MR-IMAGES; PLEURA, DISEASE; PLEURA, NEOPLASM; T1-WEIGHTED;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031027016     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-199701000-00023     Document Type: Article

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