The dural tail of intracranial meningiomas on fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery images

Neuroradiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-135

  Takeguchi, Takegu ^a   Miki, H ^a   Shimizu, T ^a   Kikuchi, K ^a   Mochizuki, T ^a   Ohue, S ^a   Ohnishi, T ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dural tail; Magnetic resonance imaging; Meningioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 1642293244     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-003-1152-4     Document Type: Article

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