Concepts and controversies in nonketotic hyperglycemia-induced hemichorea: Further evidence from susceptibility-weighted MR imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 699-703

  Cherian, Ajith ^a   Thomas, Bejoy ^a   Baheti, Neeraj N ^a   Chemmanam, Thomas ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Chorea; MRI; Putaminal hyperintensity; SWI

Indexed keywords

METALLOTHIONEIN; MINERAL; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PROTEIN; ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYTOPLASM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GEMISTOCYTE; HEMICHOREA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KETONURIA; MALE; MINERALIZATION; NEUROIMAGING; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUTAMEN; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CHOREA; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCINEMIA, NONKETOTIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63449142701     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21672     Document Type: Article

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