Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Skull Base
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Fibrosing inflammatory pseudotumors involving the skull base: MR and CT manifestations with histopathologic comparison.
PURPOSE To describe the MR and CT features of fibrosing inflammatory pseudotumors of the skull base region, and to document the MR signal intensity of the lesions with histopathologic comparison. METHODS We reviewed the MR and CT studies of five patients with pathologically proved fibrosing inflammatory pseudotumor involving the skull base. Unenhanced spin-echo T1- and T2-weighted and contras...
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عنوان ژورنال: Skull Base
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1531-5010,1532-0065
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1058977