Magnetic resonance imaging and cerebrospinal fluid shunt valves [2]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1413-1414

  Akbar, Michael ^a   Stippich, Christoph ^a   Aschoff, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPLANTATION; LETTER; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALVE;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 25444458558     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc051113     Document Type: Letter

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