MR Imaging of Neonatal Brain Infections

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 761-775

  Schneider, Jacques F ^a   Hanquinet, Sylviane ^b   Severino, Mariasavina ^c   Rossi, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

^c G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain; Infection; MRI; Neonate

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ASPERGILLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHO VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARECHOVIRUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; REVIEW; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTNATAL CARE;

EID: 82755187565     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: 15579786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2011.08.013     Document Type: Review

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