Diffusion tensor imaging, permanent pyramidal tract damage, and outcome in subcortical stroke

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1048-1054

  Radlinska, B ^a,b   Ghinani, S ^a,b   Leppert, I R ^c   Minuk, J ^a,b   Pike, G B ^a,c   Thiel, A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 77957220989     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181f39aa0     Document Type: Article

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