Acute and chronic brain infarcts on MR imaging in a 20-year-old woman with acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-69

  Bugnone, Alejandro N ^a   Hartker, F ^b   Shapiro, M ^b   Pineless, H S ^c   Velez, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Neuroskeletal Imaging Institutes   (United States)

^c NeuroCare Institute of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIOPATHY; STROKE; VISUAL ACUITY; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOROID DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOROID DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33644863599     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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