Intracranial calcifications

Applied Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 48-60

  Makariou, Erini ^a   Patsalides, Athos D ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTOMA; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAHR DISEASE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; MENINGIOMA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEURORADIOLOGY; PHAKOMATOSIS; REVIEW; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 71149108648     PISSN: 01609963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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