The target sign: Extremity

Radiology

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 899-900

  Banks, Kevin P ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIMB; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13844298163     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2343030946     Document Type: Article

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