Multiple sclerosis: Sorting through the pediatric MS spectrum with brain MRI

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 186-188

  Chabas, Dorothée ^a   Pelletier, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT, MASS AND SIZE; BRAIN; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 67649229589     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.35     Document Type: Article

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