Diagnosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: Does DWI help?

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1046-1047

  Zhang, Hong Liang ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Zhou, Hong Wei ^b   Wu, Jiang ^a  

^a THE FIRST HOSPITAL OF JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SYNDROME;

EID: 77957932505     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70262-3     Document Type: Letter

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