Characteristics of early MRI in children and adolescents with vanishing white matter

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-26

  Van Der Lei, Hannemieked ^a   Steenweg, Marjane ^a   Barkhof, Frederik ^a   De Grauw, Ton ^b   D'Hooghe, Marc ^c   Morton, Richard ^d   Shah, Siddharth ^e   Wolf, Nicole ^a   Van Der Knaap, Marjos ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

^d DERBYSHIRE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adolescents; children; leukoencephalopathy; MRI; vanishing white matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; VANISHING WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BRAIN; CHILD; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84858301016     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1307456     Document Type: Article

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