Rasmussen encephalitis: Complementary role of multitechnique neuroimaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 445-449

  Geller, Evan ^a,c   Faerber, Eric N ^a   Legido, Agustin ^a   Melvin, Joseph J ^a   Hunter, Jill V ^b   Wang, Zhiyue ^b   De Chadarevian, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032231312     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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