Cerebellar lesions in multiple system atrophy: Postmortem MR imaging - Pathologic correlations

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1725-1730

  Matsusue, Eiji ^a   Fujii, S ^a   Kanasaki, Y ^a   Kaminou, T ^a   Ohama, E ^b   Ogawa, T ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70349934207     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1662     Document Type: Article

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