Reversible diffusion-weighted imaging changes in the splenium of the corpus callosum and internal capsule associated with hypoglycemia - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 486-488

  Terakawa, Yuzo ^a   Tsuyuguchi, Naohiro ^a   Nunomura, Katsuyuki ^b   Murayama, Naoaki ^b   Fujishige, Masahito ^b   Yamamura, Akinori ^b   Nakagawa, Toshio ^b   Hashi, Kazuo ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Shinsapporo Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Hypoglycemia; Hypoglycemia induced hemiparesis; Splenium

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; STROKE;

EID: 35648952177     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.486     Document Type: Article

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