Metachromatic leukodystrophy: Natural course of cerebral MRI changes in relation to clinical course

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1095-1102

  Groeschel, Samuel ^f   Kehrer, Christiane ^a   Engel, Corinna ^a   Í Dali, Christine ^b   Bley, Annette ^c   Steinfeld, Robert ^d   Grodd, Wolfgang ^e   Krägeloh Mann, Ingeborg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; U FIBER; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKODYSTROPHY, METACHROMATIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 82955212940     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: 15732665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10545-011-9361-1     Document Type: Article

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