Articles by author - Raffi Topakian

Somatostatin-receptor positive brain stem glioma visualized by octreoscan.

Pichler R, Pichler J, Mustafa H, Nussbaumer K, Zaunmüller T, Topakian R.

Letter 2007; 28(3): 250-251 PubMed PMID: 17627256  Keywords:  Adult, Brain Stem Neoplasms:diagnostic imaging, Female, Glioma:diagnostic imaging, Humans, Indium Radioisotopes, Receptors, Somatostatin:analysis, Somatostatin:analogs & derivatives, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon,.    Citation

: In diffuse brainstem gliomas often surgical biopsies cannot be obtained. The diagnosis relies upon imaging criteria, first line being MR.....

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