Magnetic resonance imaging features of unusually dilated Virchow-Robin spaces - Two cases reports

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 161-164

  Komiyama, Masaki ^a   Yasui, Toshihiro ^a   Izumi, Toru ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Tsukazaki Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluid attenuated inversion recovery imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Virchow Robin space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DYSARTHRIA; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SCLEROSIS; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0031897590     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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