Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 59-64 , January 2008

Central neurocytoma: typical magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings and atypical ventricular dissemination

  • Ing Berne Yeh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Imaging, National University Hospital, Singapore 119074, Singapore
    • Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore 308433, Singapore
    • ,
  • Maosheng Xu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore 308433, Singapore
    • Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical College, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China
    • ,
  • Wai Hoe Ng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore 308433, Singapore
    • ,
  • Jieru Ye

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore 308433, Singapore
    • ,
  • Daiwen Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore
    • ,
  • C.C. Tchoyoson Lim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore 308433, Singapore
    • Diagnostic Radiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore 308433, Singapore. Tel.: +65 6357 7021; fax: +65 6358 1259.

Received 24 February 2007 ,Revised 5 April 2007 ,Accepted 21 April 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2007.04.005

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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