When Is Enlargement of the Subarachnoid Spaces Not Benign? A Genetic Perspective

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Paciorkowski, Alex R ^a   Greenstein, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHONDROPLASIA; ACIDURIA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GLUTARIC ACIDURIA TYPE 1; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NOMENCLATURE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOTOS SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME;

ACHONDROPLASIA; CHILD; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; GLUTARATES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34447097431     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.04.001     Document Type: Review

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