The Central Scar: Pathophysiology and Imaging Features

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 247-257

  Elsayes, Khaled M ^a   Peterson, Christine M ^b   Menias, Christine O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOCYTOMA; PANCREAS ADENOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CICATRIX; FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348940318     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2007.04.005     Document Type: Review

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