The role of advanced MR methods in the diagnosis of cerebral amyloidoma

Amyloid

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-98

  Nossek, Erez ^a,b   Bashat, Dafna Ben ^a   Artzi, Moran ^a,b   Rosenberg, Keren ^a,b   Lichter, Irith ^a   Shtern, Orit ^a   Ami, Haim Ben ^a   Aizenstein, Orna ^a   Vlodavsky, Euvgeni ^c   Constantinescu, Marius ^d   Ram, Zvi ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Rambam Health Care Campus   (Israel)

^d RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cerebral amyloidoma; Diffusion tensor; Dynamic susceptibility; Magnetization transfer; Spectroscopy; Susceptibility weighted image; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL AMYLOIDOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WEAKNESS;

AMYLOIDOSIS; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 70849116099     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506120902879939     Document Type: Article

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