Spinal cord tract diffusion tensor imaging reveals Disability substrate in demyelinating disease

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 2201-2209

  Naismith, Robert T ^a   Xu, Junqian ^a   Klawiter, Eric C ^a   Lancia, Samantha ^a   Tutlam, Nhial T ^a   Wagner, Joanne M ^c   Qian, Peiqing ^a   Trinkaus, Kathryn ^b   Song, Sheng Kwei ^b   Cross, Anne H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 FOOT TIMED WALK; 9 HOLE PEG TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FINGER VIBRATORY THRESHOLD; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84879085451     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318296e8f1     Document Type: Article

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