Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of cerebral cavernous malformations with susceptibility-weighted imaging

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 641-647

  De Champfleur, Nicolas Menjot ^a   Langlois, Christophe ^a   Ankenbrandt, William J ^a   Le Bars, Emmanuelle ^a   Leroy, Marie Anne ^b   Duffau, Hugues ^c   Bonafé, Alain ^a   Jaffe, Jennifer ^a,d   Awad, Issam A ^a,d   Labauge, Pierre ^e  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b CNRS UMR 8189   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NÎMES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cavernous angiomas; Gradient echo; Imaging; MRI; SWI

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; T2 WEIGHTED GRADIENT ECHO; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951769130     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31820773cf     Document Type: Article

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