Morphologic Features and Flow Void Phenomenon in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and Other Dementias. Are They Really Significant?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1373-1380

  Algin, Oktay ^a   Hakyemez, Bahattin ^a   Taskapilioglu, Ozlem ^a   Ocakoglu, Gokhan ^a   Bekar, Ahmet ^a   Parlak, Mufit ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics; magnetic resonance imaging; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; shunt; subarachnoid space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349774218     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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