Images of the brain in chronic liver failure

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 661-662

  Newbery, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER FAILURE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AMMONIA; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0035164635     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(01)00225-2     Document Type: Editorial

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