Incidental findings on brain MRI [7]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 853-855

  Rocque, Brandon G ^a   Baskaya, Mustafa K ^a   Kuo, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LETTER; MENINGIOMA; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; TAIWAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHINESE; ETHNICITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; WHOLE BODY MRI; ADENOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN; ADENOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MENINGIOMA;

EID: 39549108478     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc073320     Document Type: Letter

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