Do brain tumours allow valid conclusions on the localisation of human brain functions? - Objections

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1004-1006

  Karnath, Hans Otto ^a,b   Steinbach, Joachim P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GLIOMA; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 79959873581     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.08.006     Document Type: Note

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