Diffuse tract damage in the hemispheric deep white matter may correlate with global cognitive impairment and callosal atrophy in patients with extensive leukoaraiosis

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 726-732

  Otsuka, Yoshinobu ^a   Yamauchi, H ^a   Sawamoto, N ^a   Iseki, K ^a   Tomimoto, H ^a   Fukuyama, H ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DEEP WHITE MATTER; HUMAN; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860250201     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2853     Document Type: Article

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