A new visual scale to assess white matter hyperintensities within cholinergic pathways

Stroke

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2064-2065

  Pawlak, Mikolaj ^a,b   Krejza, Jaroslaw ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 26444494932     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/str.36.10.2064     Document Type: Editorial

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