Intrinsic Cervical Spinal Cord Deformation on MRI: "The Distorted 'H' Sign"

Journal of Spinal Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 494-499

  Ahmad, Iftikhar ^a,b   Rosenbaum, Arthur E ^a   Yu, Frank Shiwei ^a   Collins, George H ^d   Collins, Catherine S ^a   Poe, Lawrence B ^c  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gray matter; MR imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Spinal cord; Syrinx

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0030479261     PISSN: 08950385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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