Late structural alterations of cerebral white matter in long-term survivors of childhood leukemia

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1250-1255

  Dellani, Paulo R ^a   Eder, Stefan ^a   Gawehn, Joachim ^a   Vucurevic, Goran ^a   Fellgiebel, Andreas ^a   Müller, Matthias J ^a   Schmidberger, Heinz ^a   Stoeter, Peter ^a   Gutjahr, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALL; Chemotherapy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Radiation; Structural alterations; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THALAMUS; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 44449118501     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21364     Document Type: Article

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