Identifying and classifying hyperostosis frontalis interna via computerized tomography

Anatomical Record

Volumn 293, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2007-2011

  May, Hila ^a   Peled, Nathan ^b   Dar, Gali ^c   Hay, Ori ^a   Abbas, Janan ^a   Masharawi, Youssef ^a   Hershkovitz, Israel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

CT; HFI categorization; Hyperostosis frontalis interna; Skull; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEROSTOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS FRONTALIS INTERNA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649711095     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21274     Document Type: Article

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