Mimics of brain tumor on neuroimaging: Part II

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 135-142

  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 Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN TUMOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3242814718     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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