Imaging-based disease pattern in a consecutive series of cranial CTs and MRIs in a rural and an urban Tanzanian hospital: A comparative, retrospective, neuroradiological analysis

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 122, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 40-46

  Maier, Daniel ^a   Doppler, Magdalena ^a   Gasser, Anna ^a   Zellner, Herta ^a   Dharsee, Jaffer ^b   Schmutzhard, Erich ^a   Winkler, Andrea Sylvia ^c  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Aga Khan Hospital   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Cranial pathologies; CT; MRI; Prevalence; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALARIA; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; TANZANIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78249256980     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-010-1436-8     Document Type: Article

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