Editorial: What you see depends on how you look: Gray matter lesions in multiple sclerosis

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 918-919

  Chard, Declan T ^a   Miller, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN CORTEX; DISEASE COURSE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STANDARD;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURONS; NEUROPIL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349656490     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181b99a1e     Document Type: Editorial

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