Thymic hyperplasia and thymus gland tumors: Differentiation with chemical shift MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 869-876

  Inaoka, Tsutomu ^a   Takahashi, Koji ^a   Mineta, Masayuki ^a   Yamada, Tomonori ^a   Shuke, Noriyuki ^a   Okizaki, Atsutaka ^a   Nagasawa, Kenichi ^a   Sugimori, Hiroyuki ^a   Aburano, Tamio ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THYMOMA; THYMUS CANCER; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYMUS LYMPHOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249102312     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2433060797     Document Type: Article

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