Intrapontine malignant nerve sheath tumor: MRI and MRS features

Acta Neurologica Belgica

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-71

  Kozić, Duško ^a   Nagulic, Mirjana ^b   Samardžić, Miroslav ^b   Ostojic, Jelena ^a   Rasulić, Lukas ^b   Cvetković Dožić, Dubravka ^c  

^a Diagnostic Imaging Center   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Intracerebral malignant nerve sheath tumor; MR imaging; MR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAPONTINE MALIGNANT NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RARE DISEASE; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 52149107371     PISSN: 03009009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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