Differentiation of Fungal, Tubercular and Pyogenic Brain Abscesses with Conventional, Diffusion MR Imaging and Proton MR Spectroscopy
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A. Parihar, G. Luthra, K. Nath, S. Jaiswal, K. N. Prasad, N. Husain, M. Husain, S. Singh, S. Behari, and R. K. Gupta Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Microbiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Pathology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Neurosurgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Comparative evaluation of fungal, tubercular, and pyogenic brain abscesses with conventional and diffusion MR imaging and proton MR spectroscopy.
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