Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , February 2008

MRI of Long-Term Epilepsy-Associated Tumors

  • Horst Urbach, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Horst Urbach, MD, Department of Radiology/Neuroradiology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Sigmund-Freud-Straβe 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.

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 Article reprinted with permission from Clin Neuroradiol 16:209-216, 2006 (DOI:10.1007/s00062-006-6025-x).

PII: S0887-2171(07)00102-3

doi: 10.1053/j.sult.2007.11.006

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 40-46 , February 2008

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