Imaging of posterior fossa epidermoid tumors

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 461-467

  Sirin, Sait ^a,b   Gonul, Engin ^a   Kahraman, Serdar ^a   Timurkaynak, Erdener ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI); Epidermoid; Fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR); Posterior fossa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25844484082     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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