Neuronal and vascular biomarkers in syringomyelia: Investigations using longitudinal MRI

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-124

  Bilgen, Mehmet ^a   Rumboldt, Zoran ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurotrauma; Post traumatic syringomyelia; Spinal cord; Spinal cord injury; Syringomyelia

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PROGNOSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 44449127125     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17520363.2.2.113     Document Type: Article

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