Acoustic schwannomas: Awareness of radiologic error will reduce unnecessary treatment

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 512-515

  Marshall, Andrew H ^a   Owen, Victoria M F ^b   Nikolopoulos, Thomas P ^c   O'Donoghue, Gerard M ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acoustic schwannoma; Interobserver comparisons; Magnetic resonance imaging; Size

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 18644386414     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000169782.69341.6d     Document Type: Article

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