Mimics of brain tumor on neuroimaging: Part I

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-76

  Okamoto, Kouichirou ^a   Furusawa, Tetsuya ^a   Ishikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Quadery, Ferdous A ^a   Sasai, Keisuke ^a   Tokiguchi, Susumu ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ojiya General Hosipital ^*

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Computed tomography (CT); Differential diagnosis; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2442638723     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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