Evaluation of cranial CT findings of patients with muscular dystrophy: With a reference to cerebral vascular disease and cardiac complications

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 621-626

  Konagaya, Masaaki ^a   Sakai, Motoko ^a   Kuru, Satoshi ^a   Kato, Takashi ^a   Yasuma, Fumihiko ^a   Matsuoka, Yukihiko ^a  

^a SUZUKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain atrophy; Cerebral embolism; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Muscular dystrophy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADAMS STOKES ATTACK; ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DILATATION; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; STROKE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES;

EID: 0032772609     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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