[The role of magnetic resonant tomography in the diagnosis of primary and metastatic brain tumors]. / Rol' magnitno-rezonansnoi tomografii v diagnostike pervichnykh i metastaticheskikh opukholei golovnogo mozga.

ABSTRACT

1035 patients of suspected brain formations have been examined in a low-field magnetic resonance tomography (MPT) study. Various patterns of brain tumors were identified in 772 cases and diagnosis was verified by other procedures. Among the most frequent were neuro-epithelial tumors (157), meningiomas (161) and metastatic lesions (136). The MRT technique condition suggest histological pattern. Although less expensive and easier to service, low-field MRT's yield as much information for brain tumor diagnosis as medium- and high-field tomographs do.