Paediatric PNET: pre-surgical MRI features

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-52

  Chawla, A ^a   Emmanuel, J V ^a   Seow, W T ^a   Lou, J ^b   Teo, H E ^b   Lim, C C T ^a,c  

^a National Neuroscience Institute   (Singapore)

^b KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; TAURINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ASPARTIC ACID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TAURINE;

EID: 34547188335     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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