Paradoxical parasellar high signals resembling shunt diseases on routine 3D time-of-flight MR angiography of the brain: Mechanism for the signals and differential diagnosis from shunt diseases

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1289-1293

  Sakamoto, Masahiko ^a   Taoka, Toshiaki ^a   Iwasaki, Satoru ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Fukusumi, Akio ^a   Takayama, Katsutoshi ^a   Wada, Takeshi ^a   Kichikawa, Kimihiko ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; MRA; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

IPS;

EID: 10644261502     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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