Sciatic nerve tumor and tumor-like lesions-uncommon pathologies

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 763-774

  Wadhwa, Vibhor ^a   Thakkar, Rashmi S ^a   Maragakis, Nicholas ^a   Höke, Ahmet ^a   Sumner, Charlotte J ^a   Lloyd, Thomas E ^a   Carrino, John A ^a   Belzberg, Allan J ^a   Chhabra, Avneesh ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; Charcot Marie Tooth disease; Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Endometriosis; Fibromatosis; Intraneural ganglion; Lymphoma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perineurioma; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

AMYLOIDOSIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FIBROMATOSIS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INTRANEURAL GANGLION CYST; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROLYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINEUROMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PHAKOMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE TUMOR; TUMOR LIKE LESION;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

EID: 84863989160     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: 14322161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-012-1384-7     Document Type: Review

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