Impact of white matter hyperintensities scoring method on correlations with clinical data: The LADIS study

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 836-840

  Van Straaten, Elisabeth C W ^a,b   Fazekas, Franz ^c   Rostrup, Egill ^d   Scheltens, Philip ^a,b   Schmidt, Reinhold ^c   Pantoni, Leonardo ^e   Inzitari, Domenico ^e   Waldemar, Gunhild ^d   Erkinjuntti, Timo ^f   Mäntylä, Riita ^f   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^g   Barkhof, Frederik ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disorders; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE RELATED WHITE MATTER CHANGES SCALE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURVE FITTING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAZEKAS SCALE; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; SCHELTENS SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT T TEST; SYMPTOM; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645068478     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000202585.26325.74     Document Type: Article

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