Distinguishing Grade I Meningioma From Higher Grade Meningiomas Without Biopsy
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Distinguishing grade I meningioma from higher grade meningiomas without biopsy
BACKGROUND Many meningiomas are identified by imaging and followed, with an assumption that they are WHO Grade I tumors. The purpose of our investigation is to find clinical or imaging predictors of WHO Grade II/III tumors to distinguish them from Grade I meningiomas. METHODS Patients with a pathologic diagnosis of meningioma from 2002-2009 were included if they had pre-operative MRI studies ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0360-3016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.07.731