Differential diagnostic approach to MR imaging of white matter diseases

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 243-263

  Hesselink, John R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Demyelinating disease; Differential diagnosis; White matter disease

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; GADOLINIUM; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS; THIOTEPA;

BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TOXICITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN DISEASES; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247101745     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rmr.0000248666.91834.af     Document Type: Review

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