Decreased brain venous vasculature visibility on susceptibility-weighted imaging venography in patients with multiple sclerosis is related to chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency

BMC Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zivadinov, Robert ^a,b   Poloni, Guy U ^a   Marr, Karen ^a   Schirda, Claudiu V ^a   Magnano, Christopher R ^a   Carl, Ellen ^a   Bergsland, Niels ^a   Hojnacki, David ^b   Kennedy, Cheryl ^a   Beggs, Clive B ^c   Dwyer, Michael G ^a   Weinstock Guttman, Bianca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b JACOBS NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CHRONIC CEREBROSPINAL VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; RELAPSE; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; VEIN DIAMETER; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 80054124457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-11-128     Document Type: Article

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