Clinical characteristics and diagnostic imaging of epidermoid tumors

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1158-1162

  Nagasawa, Daniel ^a   Yew, Andrew ^a   Safaee, Michael ^a   Fong, Brendan ^a   Gopen, Quinton ^a   Parsa, Andrew T ^b   Yang, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermoid; Epidermoid cyst; Epidermoid tumor; Presentation; Radiology; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPIDERMOID CYST; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; T1 WEIGHTED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; T2 WEIGHTED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79960996720     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.02.008     Document Type: Review

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