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In Vivo Differentiation of Aerobic Brain Abscesses and Necrotic Glioblastomas Multiforme Using Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging
  
    	
P.H. Lai, H.H. Weng, C.Y. Chen, S.S. Hsu, S. Ding, C.W. Ko, J.H. Fu, H.L. Liang and K.H. Chen

  
    	
American Journal of Neuroradiology September 2008,  29 (8) 1511-1518; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A1130 

  
  
  



  


  
  



			

		

	
	
 	
	  
  

		
		

			

			  

  
      
  
  

    
  


  
  



  
      
  
  

    

  

    

  
      
  
  

    
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