Soft tissue masses with "cyst-like" appearance on MR imaging: Distinction of benign and malignant lesions

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2652-2660

  Harish, Srinivasan ^a,c   Lee, Justin C ^a   Ahmad, Muaaze ^a   Saifuddin, Asif ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ganglion cyst; MRI; Myxoma; Soft tissue mass; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MYXOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 37849185282     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0267-5     Document Type: Article

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