Reduced head and brain size for age and disproportionately smaller thalami in child-onset MS

Neurology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 194-201

  Kerbrat, A ^a,b   Aubert Broche, B ^a   Fonov, V ^a   Narayanan, S ^a   Sled, J G ^c   Arnold, D A ^a   Banwell, B ^c   Collins, D L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; HEAD; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858011553     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318240799a     Document Type: Article

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