MR Features of Diseases Involving Bilateral Middle Cerebellar Peduncles

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1946-1954

  Okamoto, Kouichirou ^a   Tokiguchi, Susumu ^b   Furusawa, Tetsuya ^a   Ishikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Quardery, Akther F ^a   Shinbo, Satoru ^c   Sasai, Keisuke ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ojiya General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Kawase Neurology Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ADULT; AGED; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBELLUM PEDUNCLE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE LESION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHY; PONS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; REVIEW; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0345686512     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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