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Cerebellar tumors in pediatric patients: can they be differentiated using diffusion-weighted imaging?

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boxed-textRumboldt Z et al. (2006) Apparent diffusion coefficients for differentiation of cerebellar tumors in children. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 27: 1362–1369

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  1. R Jain is a senior staff neuroradiologist at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA, and an assistant professor at the School of Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit.,

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  2. T Mikkelsen is a senior staff neurologist and Co-director of the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, and an associate professor of Neurology at Wayne State University.,

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