Imaging aspects of pyogenic infections of the central nervous system

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-154

  Fortes Ferreira, Nelson Paes Diniz ^a   Otta, Gilberto Miyazaki ^a   Do Amaral, Lázaro Luís Faria ^a   Da Rocha, Antônio José ^b  

^a HOSPITAL BENEFICÊNCIA PORTUGUESA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Fleury   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain; Meningitis; MRI; Pyogenic abscess

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW;

BRAIN ABSCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS;

EID: 33644848580     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rmr.0000189107.55275.f6     Document Type: Review

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