Inclusion or exclusion of intratumoral vessels in relative cerebral blood volume characterization in low-grade gliomas: Does it make a difference?

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1140-1141

  Brasil Caseiras, Gisele ^a,b,d   Thornton, J S ^a   Yousry, T ^a,b   Benton, C ^b   Rees, J ^b   Waldman, A D ^c   Jager H R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CANCER GRADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 46749108448     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0993     Document Type: Article

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