Pituitary macroadenomas: Preoperative evaluation of consistency with diffusion-weighted MR imaging - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 223-231

  Pierallini, Alberto ^a,c   Caramia, Francesca ^a,c   Falcone, Carlo ^a   Tinelli, Emanuele ^a   Paonessa, Amalia ^c   Ciddio, Alessia Bernardo ^a   Fiorelli, Marco ^a   Bianco, Federico ^b   Natalizi, Stefania ^a   Ferrante, Luigi ^d   Bozzao, Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GADODIAMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL DETECTION; WHITE MATTER;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645128768     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2383042204     Document Type: Article

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