Distinguishing ischemic stroke from the stroke-like lesions of MELAS using apparent diffusion coefficient mapping

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-15

  Kolb, Stephen J ^a   Costello, Fiona ^b   Lee, Andrew G ^b   White, Matthew ^b   Wong, Stephen ^a   Schwartz, Eric D ^a   Messé, Steven R ^a   Ellenbogen, Jeffrey ^a   Kasner, Scott E ^a   Galetta, Steven L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Magnetic resonance imaging; MELAS; Visual loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 10744225787     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(03)00218-1     Document Type: Article

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