Neuro-lyme disease: MR imaging findings

Radiology

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-173

  Agarwal, Rajan ^a   Sze, Gordon ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MAGNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINX; NERVE ROOT; NEUROBORRELIOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE MATTER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70350475776     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2531081103     Document Type: Article

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