Disappearance of basal ganglia hyperintensity on T1-weighted MR images after obliterating portal systemic shunt in a patient with hepatic encephalopathy

Japanese Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1487-1492

  Mizuta, Yukiko ^b   Ijyuin, Hiroyasu ^b   Ono, Naofumi ^b   Miyamoto, Yasunao ^b   Oho, Kazuhiko ^b   Kumashiro, Ryukichi ^b   Toyonaga, Atsushi ^b   Sata, Michio ^a   Nakashima, Osamu ^a   Nagata, Eisuke ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; ULTRASOUND; VEIN DILATATION;

AGED; BASAL GANGLIA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 0036917126     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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