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PEREZ ORTIZ, Letyer. Métodos diagnósticos en los tumores gliales de tipo astrocíticos. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2004, vol.43, n.1. ISSN 0034-7493.

The brain tumors are a real complex problem for most of the professionals devoted to their diagnosis and treatment. The patient with a brain tumor is a scientific, ethical and emotional challenge for the radiologist and the neurosurgeon. Since the discovery of the X-rays in 1895, radiology and later neuroradiology, as a discipline, have been unquestionably useful in the detection of injuries. During the last decades, the development attained by the neuroimaging techniques has allowed to make an accurate diagnosis and to determine the exact location of the tumor, the structural perilesional details, the evidence of damage of the hematoencephalic barrier, the brain edema, and the degree of tumoral malignity through the functional imaging studies. In this paper, we pretend to make a general review on the most used diagnostic methods in the detection of glial tumors, an indispensable previous step to treat them and to have a prognosis

Palavras-chave : GLIOMA [diagnosis]; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION - COMPUTED.