Putaminal involvement in Rasmussen encephalitis

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 816-822

  Rajesh, Bhagavatheeswaran ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a   Ashalatha, Radhakrishnan ^a   Thomas, Bejoy ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Children; Epilepsy; MRI; Putamen; Rasmussen encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUTAMEN;

EID: 33746521222     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-006-0176-4     Document Type: Article

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