MR imaging of cardiac tumors and masses: A review of methods and clinical applications

Radiology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-43

  Motwani, Manish ^a   Kidambi, Ananth ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Uddin, Akhlaque ^a   Greenwood, John P ^a   Plein, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANGIOSARCOMA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROELASTOMA; FIBROMA; FIBROSARCOMA; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MYXOMA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LIPOMA; LYMPHOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; PERICARDIUM CYST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; TERATOMA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR REGRESSION;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879922462     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13121239     Document Type: Review

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