Magnetic resonance spectroscopy predicts outcomes for children with nonaccidental trauma

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 295-303

  Aaen, Gregory S ^a   Holshouser, Barbara A ^b   Sheridan, Clare ^a   Colbert, Cherie ^b   McKenney, Melinda ^b   Kido, Daniel ^b   Ashwal, Stephen ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Infants; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; MRI; Nonaccidental trauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LACTATES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 76049126768     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3312     Document Type: Article

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