Differentiation of benign and malignant pathology in the head and neck using 3T apparent diffusion coefficient values: Early experience

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-44

  Srinivasan, Ashok ^a   Dvorak, R ^a   Perni, K ^a   Rohrer, S ^a   Mukherji, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CHEMODECTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOCYTOMA; ORBIT TUMOR; PAROTID GLAND CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38349022283     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0743     Document Type: Article

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