Differential diagnosis of T2 hyperintense brainstem lesions: Part 2. diffuse lesions

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-274

  Guzmán De Villoria, Juan A ^a   Ferreiro Argüelles, Concepción ^b   Fernández García, Pilar ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFALIZUMAB; NATALIZUMAB; RITUXIMAB;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; LEUKOARAIOSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSMOTIC DEMYELINATION SYNDROME; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RHOMBENCEPHALITIS; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLIOMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELINOLYSIS, CENTRAL PONTINE; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 77952871756     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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