“Comet tail sign”: A pitfall of post-gadolinium magnetic resonance imaging findings for metastatic brain tumors

A highly enhanced cap attached to the surface of metastatic tumors in the brain parenchyma is occasionally encountered on magnetic resonance (MR) images. This atypical enhanced cap tends to occur in severe peritumoral edema and may produce the characteristic bulge of a metastatic mass lesion termed...

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Published in:J Neurooncol
Main Authors: Mitsuya, Koichi, Nakasu, Yoko, Narita, Yoshitaka, Nakasu, Satoshi, Ohno, Makoto, Miyakita, Yasuji, Abe, Masato, Ito, Ichiro, Hayashi, Nakamasa, Endo, Masahiro
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer US 2016
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Clinical Study
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835516/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26839020
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11060-016-2069-1
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