The solitary enhancing cerebral lesion: Can FLAIR aid the differentiation between glioma and metastasis?

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 609-611

  Tang, Y M ^a   Ngai, S ^a   Stuckey, S ^a   Xu, Ming Tang ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33745898237     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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