Imaging of cerebellopontine angle lesions: An update. Part 2: Intra-axial lesions, skull base lesions that may invade the CPA region, and non-enhancing extra-axial lesions

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2908-2920

  Bonneville, Fabrice ^a   Savatovsky, Julien ^b   Chiras, Jacques ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b FONDATION OPHTALMOLOGIQUE ADOLPHE DE ROTHSCHILD   (France)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Cerebellopontine angle; Diffusion weighted MR imaging (DWI); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); MR perfusion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CHONDROMA; CHORDOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID CYST; GLIOMA; GRANULOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENIERE DISEASE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKULL INJURY; TERATOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348973656     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0680-4     Document Type: Article

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