Unusual CT and MR appearance of an epidermoid tumor of the cerebellopontine angle

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1113-1115

  Ochi, Makoto ^a   Hayashi, Kuniaki ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Ogino, Ayumi ^a   Hashmi, Rashid ^a   Iwanaga, Mitsuto ^a   Yasunaga, Akio ^a   Shibata, Shobu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDERMOID CYST; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PROTEIN CONTENT; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDERMAL CYST; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032470786     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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