Comparative evaluation of fungal, tubercular, and pyogenic brain abscesses with conventional and diffusion MR imaging and proton MR spectroscopy

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1332-1338

  Luthra, G ^a   Parihar, A ^a   Nath, K ^a   Jaiswal, S ^a   Prasad, K N ^a   Husain, N ^b   Husain, M ^b   Singh, S ^b   Behari, S ^a   Gupta, Rakesh K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; LACTIC ACID; LIPID; SUCCINIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOCARDIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCACEAE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PSEUDOMONAS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN ABSCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROTONS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34548184135     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0548     Document Type: Article

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