Enhancing cranial nerves and cauda equina: An emerging magnetic resonance imaging pattern in metachromatic leukodystrophy and Krabbe disease

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 291-294

  Morana, Giovanni ^a   Biancheri, R ^a   Dirocco, M ^a   Filocamo, M ^a   Marazzi, M G ^a   Pessagno, A ^a   Rossi, A ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

inborn errors of metabolism; MRI; peripheral nervous system

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL NERVES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 77954765365     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1249654     Document Type: Article

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