Enlargement of the hippocampal angle: A new index of Alzheimer disease

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-38

  Hayashi, Takafumi ^a   Wada, Akihiko ^a   Uchida, Nobue ^a   Kitagaki, Hajime ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Atrophy MR imaging; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; ROC CURVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ROC CURVE;

EID: 67651242484     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.8.33     Document Type: Article

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