Imaging of cerebellopontine angle lesions: An update. Part 1: Enhancing extra-axial lesions

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2472-2482

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

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Adolphe de Rothschild Fondation ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Cerebellopontine angle; Diffusion imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CISTERNA MAGNA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURILEMMOMA;

EID: 41949121639     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0679-x     Document Type: Review

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