Tecto-cerebellar dysraphism with occipital encephalocele: Not a distinct disorder, but part of the joubert syndrome spectrum?

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 170-174

  Poretti, A ^a,b   Singhi, S ^a   Huisman, T A G M ^a   Meoded, A ^a   Jallo, G ^a   Ozturk, A ^a   Boltshauser, E ^b   Tekes, A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cerebellar malformation; diffusion tensor imaging; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; JOUBERT SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECTOCEREBELLAR DYSRAPHISM WITH AN OCCIPITAL ENCEPHALOCELE; TECTUM; ULTRASOUND;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053005251     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1287763     Document Type: Review

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