Solitary vertebral collapse: Distinction between benign and malignant causes using MR patterns

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 635-642

  Shih, Tiffany Ting Fang ^a   Huang, Kou Mou ^a   Li, Yiu Wah ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Benign; Compression fracture; Malignant; Vertebra

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE TUMOR; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0032900901     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199905)9:5<635::AID-JMRI4>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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