Differences in blood-tumour-barrier leakage of human intracranial tumours: Quantitative monitoring of vasogenic oedema and its response to glucocorticoid treatment

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 919-924

  Andersen, C ^a,b   Jensen, F T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Capillary permeability; Glucocorticoids; Meningiomas

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DEXAMETHASONE; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031690250     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010050194     Document Type: Article

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