Misleading functional magnetic resonance imaging mapping of the cortical hand representation in a 4-year-old boy with an arteriovenous malformation of the central region: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-338

  Juenger, Hendrik ^a   Ressel, Volker ^a,b   Braun, Christoph ^b   Ernemann, Ulrike ^a   Schuhmann, Martin ^a   Krägeloh Mann, Ingeborg ^a   Staudt, Martin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Epilepsy Center for Children and Adolescents   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetoencephalography; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VASCULAR LESION;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONAVIGATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70349675824     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.5.PEDS08466     Document Type: Article

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