New morphologic variants of the hand motor cortex as seen with MR imaging in a large study population

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1480-1485

  Caulo, Massimo ^a   Briganti, C ^a   Mattei, P A ^a   Perfetti, B ^a   Ferretti, A ^a   Romani, G L ^a   Tartaro, A ^a   Colosimo, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 34648825227     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0597     Document Type: Article

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