Differential diagnosis of infratentorial tumors in children;Differenzialdiagnose infratentorieller hirntumoren bei kindern

Radiologe

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 977-985

  Warmuth Metz, M ^a   Kuhl J ^a   Rutkowski, S ^a   Krauss J ^a   Solymosi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Ependymoma; Glioma; Infratentorial brain tumor; Medulloblastoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 0344738891     PISSN: 0033832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00117-003-0970-z     Document Type: Article

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