Imaging findings of head and neck inflammatory pseudotumor

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1180-1186

  Park, Sung Bin ^a,b   Lee, Jeong Hyun ^b   Weon, Young Cheol ^c  

^a Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CT; Head and neck imaging; Inflammatory myofibrotic tumor; Inflammatory pseudotumor; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARYNX; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SKULL BASE; SOFT TISSUE; TEMPORAL BONE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349673476     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2398     Document Type: Article

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