Imaging bithalamic pathology in the pediatric brain: Demystifying a diagnostic conundrum

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1449-1459

  Khanna, Paritosh C ^a   Iyer, Ramesh S ^a   Chaturvedi, Apeksha ^a   Thapa, Mahesh M ^a   Chaturvedi, Abhishek ^b   Ishak, Gisele E ^a   Shaw, Dennis W W ^a  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral thalami; MRI; Pediatric neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC LEUKOENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ACUTE NECROTIZING ENCEPHALOPATHY OF CHILDHOOD; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM LUPUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEEP CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FABRY DISEASE; FAHR DISEASE; GLIOMA; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEIGH DISEASE; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSMOTIC MYELINOLYSIS; PEDIATRICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THALAMUS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WILSON DISEASE OF CHILDHOOD;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; THALAMIC DISEASES; THALAMUS;

EID: 82455203925     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6702     Document Type: Review

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