Diagnosis of vertebral metastasis, epidural metastasis, and malignant spinal cord compression: Are T1-weighted sagittal images sufficient?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 819-824

  Kim, Jennifer K ^a   Learch, Thomas J ^a   Colletti, Patrick M ^a   Lee, John W ^a   Tran, Steven D ^a   Terk, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural metastasis; Spinal cord compression; Vertebral metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; STANDARD; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0033775886     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(00)00181-8     Document Type: Article

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