Delayed post-contrast fluid-attenuated inversion recovery image for depicting meningeal carcinomatosis

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 918, 2004, Pages 528-531

  Hirota, T ^a   Ishihara, K ^a   Akazawa, K ^a   Kubota, T ^a   Yamada, K ^a   Nishimura, T ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENUATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; CARCINOMA; MENINGIOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 3042719888     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/51430802     Document Type: Article

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