T2 hyperintense signal of the central tegmental tracts in children: Disease or normal maturational process?

Neuroradiology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 863-871

  Aguilera Albesa, Sergio ^a   Poretti, Andrea ^b,c   Honnef, Dagmar ^d   Aktas, Meral ^d   Yoldi Petri, Maria Eugenia ^a   Huisman, Thierry A G M ^b   Häusler, Martin ^d  

^a Navarra Health Service   (Spain)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stem imaging; Central tegmental tracts .West syndrome; Infantile spasms; Vigabatrin

Indexed keywords

VIGABATRIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MATURATION; CENTRAL TEGMENTAL TRACT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; WEST SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 84866018239     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-012-1006-z     Document Type: Article

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