CT and MRI appearance of mitochondrial encephalopathy

Journal Belge de Radiologie

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 288-289

  Geldof, K ^a   Ramboer, K ^a   Goethals, J M ^a   Verhaeghe, L ^a  

^a AZ St Lucas ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain; Diseases Brain; MR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADENINE; ADULT; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BASAL GANGLIA; CONFUSION; FEMALE; GUANINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELAS SYNDROME; MUTATION; NECROSIS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35048887533     PISSN: 00217646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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