Cystic lumbar nerve sheath tumours: MRI features in five patients

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-127

  Parmar, Hemant ^a   Patkar, Deepak ^b   Gadani, Sameer ^b   Shah, Jeshil ^b  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b DR BALABHAI NANAVATI HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Cystic; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurofibroma; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CYSTS; DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035006248     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1673.2001.00891.x     Document Type: Article

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