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Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 139-146 , September 2001

Dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MR imaging of pituitary adenomas: usefulness of sequential sagittal and coronal plane images

Ronghui Gao
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan
Haruo Isoda
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan
- Corresponding author. Tel: +81-53-4352242; fax: +81-53-4352241
Tokutaro Tanaka
- Department of Neurosurgery, Yaizu Municipal General Hospital, 1000 Dobara, Yaizu, Shizuoka 425-8505 Japan
Shoichi Inagawa
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan
Hiroyasu Takeda
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan
Yasuo Takehara
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan
Satoshi Isogai
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan
Harumi Sakahara
- Department of Radiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192 Japan

Received 12 March 2001 ,Revised 20 April 2001 ,Accepted 24 April 2001.

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