Amnesia following herpes simplex encephalitis: Diffusion-tensor imaging uncovers reduced integrity of normal-appearing white matter

Radiology

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 774-781

  Grydeland, Håkon ^a   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b   Westlye, Lars T ^a   Due Tønnessen, Paulina ^c   Ormaasen, Vidar ^b   Sundseth, Øyvind ^b   Fjell, Anders M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THICKNESS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMNESIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78649640601     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100179     Document Type: Article

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