Vanishing MS T2-bright lesions before puberty: A distinct MRI phenotype?

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1090-1093

  Chabas, D ^a   Castillo Trivino, T ^a   Mowry, E M ^a   Strober, J B ^a   Glenn, O A ^b   Waubant, E ^a  

^a UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBERTY; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 54549122739     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000326896.66714.ae     Document Type: Article

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