Magnetic resonance imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of megalencephaly and dilated Virchow-Robin spaces

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-40

  Groeschel, Samuel ^a   Brockmann, Knut ^a   Dechent, Peter ^a   Wilichowski, Ekkehard ^a   Frahm, Jens ^b   Hanefeld, Folker ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

^c Department of Pediatrics and Neuropediatrics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MEGALENCEPHALY WITH DILATED VIRCHOW ROBIN SPACE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOTOS SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DIPEPTIDES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INOSITOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOSPHOCREATINE;

EID: 29244488752     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.05.012     Document Type: Article

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