Ventricular Enlargement in Schizophrenia Evaluated with Computed Tomographic Scanning: Effects of Gender, Age, and Stage of Illness

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1990, Pages 1008-1015

  Andreasen, Nancy C ^a   Swayze, Victor W ^a   Flaum, Michael ^a   Yates, William R ^a   Arndt, Stephan ^a   Mcchesney, Cheryl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Department of Appleton ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0025116201     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810230024005     Document Type: Article

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