Bilateral thalamic lesions

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Smith, Alice B ^a,b   Smirniotopoulos, James G ^a,b   Rushing, Elisabeth J ^a,b   Goldstein, Steven J ^c  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral thalamic; Metabolic brain disorders; Prion disease; Viral encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FABRY DISEASE; FAHR DISEASE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEIGH DISEASE; MALE; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; THALAMUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WILSON DISEASE;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THALAMUS;

EID: 59349111185     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1585     Document Type: Article

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