Serial brain imaging analysis of stroke-like episodes in MELAS

Brain and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 483-488

  Ito, Hiromichi ^a   Mori, Kenji ^a   Harada, Masafumi ^b   Minato, Masako ^a   Naito, Etsuo ^a   Takeuchi, Mayumi ^a   Kuroda, Yasuhiro ^a   Kagami, Shoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

1H MRS; Encephalopathy; Lactic acidosis and stroke like episodes (MELAS); Mitochondrial myopathy

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; LACTIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME;

EID: 45849142222     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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