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A review of cranial CT studies of 233 patients for the Second Medulloblastoma Trial of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology showed “typical” CT appearances in only 30% of patients. The varied appearances encountered are described with particular emphasis on atypical CT features.
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A shorter version of this paper was published in the Proceedings of the XIV Symposium Neuroradiologicum (Neuroradiology (1991) 33 [Suppl]: 516–517)
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Nelson, M., Diebler, C. & Forbes, W.S.C. Paediatric medulloblastoma: Atypical CT features at presentation in the SIOP II trial. Neuroradiology 33, 140–142 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00588252
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00588252