Central veins in brain lesions visualized with high-field magnetic resonance imaging: A pathologically specific diagnostic biomarker for inflammatory demyelination in the brain

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 623-628

  Mistry, Niraj ^a   Dixon, Jennifer ^a   Tallantyre, Emma ^b   Tench, Christopher ^a   Abdel Fahim, Rasha ^a   Jaspan, Tim ^b   Morgan, Paul S ^b   Morris, Peter ^a   Evangelou, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CENTRAL VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 84877780900     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.1405     Document Type: Article

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