Significance of white matter abnormalities in patients with closed head injury

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 645-649

  Vinjamuri, S ^a   O'DRISCOLL K ^b  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Rathbone Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034230549     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200007000-00008     Document Type: Review

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