Imaging evaluation of pediatric mediastinal masses

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 325-353

  Franco, Arie ^a   Mody, Neeta S ^b   Meza, Manuel P ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EWING SARCOMA; FOREGUT DUPLICATION CYST; GANGLIONEUROMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPOMATOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NERVE TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROEPITHELIUM CYST; NEUROFIBROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PARAGANGLIOMA; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIUM CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TERATOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; THYMUS; THYMUS CYST; THYMUS DISEASE; THYMUS DUPLICATION CYST; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VASCULAR RING;

EID: 14344265313     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2005.01.002     Document Type: Review

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