Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 15-20 , January 2010

Solitary metastases and high-grade gliomas: radiological differentiation by morphometric analysis and perfusion-weighted MRI

Received 19 January 2009 ,Revised 21 August 2009 ,Accepted 7 September 2009.

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PII: S0009-9260(09)00347-X

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.09.005

Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 15-20 , January 2010

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