Sickle cell cerebrovascular disease: Usual and unusual findings on MR imaging and MR angiography

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 173-186

  Moritani, Toshio ^a   Numaguchi, Yuji ^a   Lemer, Norma B ^a   Rozans, Martha K ^b   Robinson, Avin E ^a   Hiwatashi, Akio ^a   Westesson, Per Lennart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sickle cell cerebrovascular disease

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING;

FLUID-ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY (FLAIR); MR ANGIOGRAPHY (MRA); PERFUSION-WEIGHTED IMAGES; SICKEL CELL CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SILENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; SEIZURES;

EID: 2442691357     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(03)00121-9     Document Type: Article

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