Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging reveals marked abnormalities of brain tissue density in patients with cirrhosis without overt hepatic encephalopathy

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 564-573

  Guevara, Mónica ^a,c,d   Baccaro, María E ^a,c,d   Gómez Ansón, Beatriz ^a   Frisoni, Giovanni ^b   Testa, Cristina ^b   Torre, Aldo ^a,c,d   Molinuevo, José Luis ^a   Rami, Lorena ^a   Pereira, Gustavo ^a,c,d   Sotil, Eva Urtasun ^a,c,d   Córdoba, Joan ^d,e   Arroyo, Vicente ^a,c,d   Gins, Pere ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e Hospital de Valle de Hebrón   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatic encephalopathy; Magnetic resonance images; Voxel based Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84860389223     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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