Solitary metastases and high-grade gliomas: radiological differentiation by morphometric analysis and perfusion-weighted MRI

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-20

  Hakyemez, B ^a   Erdogan, C ^a   Gokalp, G ^a   Dusak, A ^a   Parlak, M ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849109940     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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