MR imaging of the brachial plexus: Current imaging sequences, normal findings, and findings in a spectrum of focal lesions with MR-pathologic correlation

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 88-101

  Kichari, Jayant R ^a   Hussain, Shahid M ^a   Den Hollander, Jan C ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PANCOAST TUMOR; PARESTHESIA; PATHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0037354364     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mdr.2003.12007     Document Type: Article

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