Radiation-induced medulloblastoma in an adult: A functional imaging study

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-93

  Padma, M V ^a   Jacobs, M ^b   Kraus, G ^a   McDowell, P ^b   Satter, M ^b   Adineh, M ^a   Mantil, J ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b KETTERING MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Medulloblastoma; Radiation necrosis; Radiation induced tumor

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; METHIONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION NECROSIS; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PINEALOMA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 16544365480     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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