"Benign" and "normal appearing": It's in the eye of the beholder

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-

  Barkhof, Frederik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; EDITORIAL; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION;

EID: 73449117895     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.180638     Document Type: Editorial

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