Radiological clue to diagnosis of Canavan disease

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-77

  Sreenivasan, Priya ^a,b   Purushothaman, K K ^a  

^a Government Medical College   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Canavan disease; Leukodystrophy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANAVAN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PUTAMEN; SPASTICITY; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84872726230     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-012-0794-9     Document Type: Article

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