Evaluation of neurological complications in pediatric liver transplant recipients: MRI versus CT

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 656-663

  Donmez, Yildirim Fuldem ^a,b   Guvenc, Zeynep ^a   Emiroglu, Kural Feride ^a   Coskun, Mehmet ^a   Haberal, Mehmet ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Baskent University Facultyof Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain; Computed tomography; Liver transplantation; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TREMOR;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66849142011     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073808329531     Document Type: Article

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