Narrow CSF space at high convexity and high midline areas in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus detected by axial and coronal MRI

Neuroradiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-122

  Sasaki, Makoto ^a   Honda, Satoshi ^b   Yuasa, Tatsuhiko ^c   Iwamura, Akihide ^c   Shibata, Eri ^a   Ohba, Hideki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c 1 7 1 Kohnodai   (Japan)

Author keywords

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Receiver operating characteristic analysis; Subarachnoid space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38649121159     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-007-0318-x     Document Type: Article

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