Perfusion abnormalities in hemimegalencephaly

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 92-96

  Wintermark, P ^a   Roulet Perez, E ^b   Maeder Ingvar, M ^a   Moessinger, A C ^a   Gudinchet, F ^a   Meuli, R ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; hemimegalencephaly; magnetic resonance imaging; perfusion weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CESAREAN SECTION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXOPHTHALMOS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INFANT DISEASE; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77953838041     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1237721     Document Type: Article

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