Multiple cerebral white matter lesions following head trauma with eyeball contusion

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-110

  Nakamura, Tomomi ^a   Ota, Kohei ^a,b   Niwa, Naoki ^c   Takeuchi, Megumi ^a   Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^a   Iwata, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Numazu City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain magnetic resonance imaging; Eyeball contusion; Head trauma; Multiple cerebral white matter lesions; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; EYE CONTUSION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CONTUSIONS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPTIC NEURITIS;

EID: 3042718911     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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