Diffusion tensor imaging demonstrates brainstem and cerebellar abnormalities in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

Pediatric Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-280

  Kumar, Rajesh ^a   MacEy, Paul M ^b   Woo, Mary A ^b   Alger, Jeffry R ^a   Harper, Ronald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; INFERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MYELIN SHEATH; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PONS; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GENETICS; HYPERCAPNIA; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RAPHE NUCLEUS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NBPHOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN STEM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RAPHE NUCLEI; SLEEP APNEA, CENTRAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 55749097967     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31817da10a     Document Type: Article

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