Midline "brain in brain": An unusual variant of holoprosencephaly with anterior prosomeric cortical dysplasia

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 437-442

  Widjaja, E ^a   Massimi, L ^b   Blaser, S ^a   Di Rocco, C ^b   Raybaud, Charles ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Holoprosencephaly; MR imaging; Prosomeric malformation; Segmental cortical malformation; Subcortical heterotopia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HETEROTOPIA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248641663     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0233-1     Document Type: Article

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