Hepatic malignant tumour versus cavernous haemangioma: Differentiation on multiple breath-hold turbo spin-echo MRI sequences with different T2-weighting and T2-relaxation time measurements on a single slice multi-echo sequence

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 250-257

  Chan, Y L ^a   Lee, S F ^a   Yu, S C H ^a   Lai, P ^a   Ching, A S C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cavernous haemangioma; Liver tumour; MRI; Signal intensity; T2 relaxation time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BREATH HOLDING; CALCULATION; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; EVALUATION; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036525953     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/crad.2001.0763     Document Type: Article

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