Lumps and bumps on the head in children: Use of CT and MR imaging in solving the clinical diagnostic dilemma

Radiographics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Morón, Fanny E ^a   Morriss, Michael C ^a   Jones, Jeremy J ^a   Hunter, Jill V ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Brain, hernia, 10.1461; Face; Head and neck neoplasms, 10.3141, 10.3622, 20.362, 20.366; Head and neck neoplasms, diagnosis; Head, CT, 10.1211, 20.1211; Head, MR, 10.1214, 20.1214

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BONE INFECTION; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCELE; EPIDERMOID CYST; ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA; EVALUATION; FIBROSARCOMA; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD INJURY; HEAD TUMOR; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCALP; SCLEROTHERAPY; SKULL TUMOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGEON; TERATOMA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VEIN MALFORMATION;

EID: 19744378627     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.246045034     Document Type: Review

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