Are cerebral cavernomas truly nonenhancing lesions and thereby distinguishable from arteriovenous malformations?. MRI findings and histopathological correlation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 631-637

  Pinker, Katja ^a   Stavrou, Ioannis ^a   Knosp, Engelbert ^a   Trattnig, Siegfried ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Cerebral cavernoma; Contrast enhancement; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33646845428     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2005.10.037     Document Type: Article

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