Whole body turbo STIR MRI in unknown primary tumor detection

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 751-753

  Eustace, Stephen ^a   Tello, Richard ^a   DeCarvalho, Victor ^a   Carey, John ^a   Melhem, Elias ^a   Yucel, E Kent ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastases; MRI; Primary tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031835764     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080336     Document Type: Article

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