The Role of Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast-Enhanced Perfusion MR Imaging in Differentiating between Infectious and Neoplastic Focal Brain Lesions: Results from a Cohort of 100 Consecutive Patients

Valdeci Hélio Floriano, Ulysses S. Torres, Antônio Ronaldo Spotti, José Roberto Lopes Ferraz-Filho, Waldir Antônio Tognola

PLoS ONE · 2013 · 37 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

PWI is a useful complementary tool in distinguishing between infectious and neoplastic brain lesions; an elevated discriminatory value for diagnosis of infectious brain lesions was observed in this sample of patients when the rCBV cutoff value was set to 1.3.

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