Congenital and acquired lesions of the septum pellucidum

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 210-219

  Scoffings, D J ^a   Kurian, K M ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABSCESS; AGENESIS; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN CYSTICERCOSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM DYSGENESIS; CYST; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; HAMARTOMA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; INRACRANIAL LIPOMA; LIPOMA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEPTOOPTIC DYSPLASIA; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM ABSCESS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM CYST; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM HEMORRHAGE; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM LESION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM TUMOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBEPENDYMAL GIANT CELL ASTROCYTOMA; SUBEPENDYMOMA; TUMOR;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37849017842     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.07.008     Document Type: Review

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