Differential diagnosis of bilateral thalamic lesions;Differenzialdiagnose bilateraler thalamusläsionen

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 234-245

  Linn, Jennifer ^a   Hoffmann, L A ^a   Danek, A ^a   Bruckmann H ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral lesions; MRI; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GLIOMA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; THALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THALAMIC DISEASES; THALAMUS;

EID: 34247639583     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-962857     Document Type: Review

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