Focal white matter abnormalities related to neurocognitive dysfunction: An objective diffusion tensor imaging study of children with sturge-weber syndrome

Pediatric Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-79

  Alkonyi, Bálint ^a,b   Govindan, Rajkumar M ^a,b   Chugani, Harry T ^a,b   Behen, Michael E ^a,b   Jeong, Jeong Won ^a,b   JUHáSZ, Csaba ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MOTOR SKILLS; STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME;

EID: 78650805251     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181fcb285     Document Type: Article

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