A simplified algorithm for diagnosis of spinal cord lesions

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 256-266

  Baruah, Dhiraj ^a   Chandra, Tushar ^a   Bajaj, Manish ^b   Sonowal, Purabi ^c   Klein, Andrew ^a   Maheshwari, Mohit ^c   Guleria, Saurabh ^d  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ASTROCYTOMA; COMPRESSIVE MYELOPATHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC ACUTE TRANSVERSE MYELITIS; INFECTIOUS MYELITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INFARCTION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION OF CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA; TERATOMA; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DERMOID CYST; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; MYELITIS; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION;

ALGORITHMS; DERMOID CYST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SUBACUTE COMBINED DEGENERATION;

EID: 84928769189     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: 15356302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2014.12.004     Document Type: Review

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