Intracranial meningeal disease: Comparison of contrast-enhanced MR imaging with fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and fat-suppressed T1-weighted sequences

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 553-559

  Galassi, Waneerat ^a   Phuttharak, Warinthorn ^a   Hesselink, John R ^a   Healy, John F ^a   Dietrich, Rosalind B ^a   Imbesi, Steven G ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENTUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; MENINX; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 16844373678     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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