Imaging for spine tumors and new applications

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 69-87

  Bloomer, Courtnay W ^a   Ackerman, Andrew ^a   Bhatia, Rita G ^a,b  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; MRI; Spinal tumors; Staging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; STEROID;

ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER STAGING; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID CYST; EWING SARCOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; GIANT CELL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LIPOMA; LYMPHOMA; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MYELOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOBLASTOMA; OSTEOCHONDROMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PARAGANGLIOMA; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPINE TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERATOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ASTROCYTOMA; DERMOID CYST; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMAL CYST; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846030146     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RMR.0b013e31802bb38f     Document Type: Review

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