Pineal gland cysts: Clinical and radiological course;Quistes de glandula pineal: Evolucion clinica y radiologica

Neurologia

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 232-237

  Perez Lopez Fraile I ^a   Bestue Cardiel M ^a   Uson M ^a   Barrena, R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cysts; Evolution; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; CYST; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL BODY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; CYSTS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PINEAL GLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031160243     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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