Osmotic demyelination syndrome in a 40-day-old infant

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 121-124

  Karakaş, Hakki Muammer ^a   Erdem, Gülnur ^a   Yakinci, Cengiz ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Central pontine and extrapontine; Infant; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myelinolysis; Osmotic demyelination syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CHOLINE; CREATINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NYSTAGMUS; OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; REFLEX DISORDER; SIGNAL DETECTION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELINOLYSIS, CENTRAL PONTINE; SYNDROME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 34548393771     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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