Pineal region metastasis appearing as hypointensity on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 283-286

  Kanai, Hideki ^a   Yamada, Kazuo ^b   Aihara, Noritaka ^b   Watanabe, Kenichi ^b  

^a Kakegawa City General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric adenocarcinoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Metastasis; Pineal region

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

EID: 0034116802     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.283     Document Type: Article

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