MRI of Long-Term Epilepsy-Associated Tumors

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-46

  Urbach, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

drug resistant epilepsy; dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors; ganglioglioma; glioneuronal tumor; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISPLAY SYSTEM; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; XANTOASTROCYTOMAS; BRAIN TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME;

EID: 42949178999     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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