MR imaging - An unreliable and potentially misleading diagnostic modality in patients with intracerebral calcium depositions

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 553-557

  Kozić, Duško ^a   Todorovic Djilas, Ljiljana ^b   Semnic, Robert ^a   Miucin Vukadinovic, Ivana ^a   Lucic, Milos ^a  

^a Institute of Oncology Sremska Kamenica   (Yugoslavia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF VOJVODINA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Intracerebral calcifications; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATION; FAHR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 77649269694     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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