Cerebral lateral ventricular asymmetry on CT: How much asymmetry is representing pathology?

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-255

  Kiroǧlu, Yilmaz ^a   Karabulut, Nevzat ^a   Oncel, Cagatay ^a   Yagci, Baki ^a   Sabir, Nuran ^a   Ozdemir, Bulent ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Brain; Computed tomography; Lateral ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449126995     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-008-0314-9     Document Type: Article

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