1H-MR spectroscopy, magnetization transfer, and diffusion-weighted imaging in alcoholic and nonalcoholic patients with cirrhosis with hepatic encephalopathy

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1019-1026

  Miese, F ^a   Kircheis, G ^a   Wittsack, H J ^a   Wenserski, F ^a   Hemker, J ^a   Modder U ^a   Haussinger D ^a   Cohnen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HYDROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN WATER; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PSYCHOMETRY; THALAMUS; WATER METABOLISM; WHITE MATTER; WILSON DISEASE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33750603620     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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