MR Imaging of Soft Tissue Masses in Children

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 489-507

  Stein Wexler, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MR imaging; Pediatric; Soft tissue mass; Soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANAMNESIS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DESMOID TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBROMATOSIS; FIBROMATOSIS COLLI; FIBROSARCOMA; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; LIPOBLASTOMA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MACRODYSTROPHIA LIPOMATOSA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFYING MYOSITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPLITEAL CYST; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; VEIN MALFORMATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NEOPLASMS, FIBROUS TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 66549121009     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2009.03.009     Document Type: Review

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