Neurocutaneous melanosis in children with giant congenital melanocytic nevi

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 79-84

  Bekiesinska Figatowska, Monika ^a   Szczygielski, Orest ^a   Boczar, Maria ^a   Madzik, Jaroslaw ^a   Klepacka, Teresa ^a   Michalak, Elzbieta ^a   Romaniuk Doroszewska, Anna ^a   Uliasz, Maria ^a   Peczkowski, Pawel ^a   Sawicka, Ewa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

Author keywords

Central nervous system (CNS); Giant congenital melanocytic nevi (GCMN); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM); Pathology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN MRI; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; GIANT CONGENITAL MELANOCYTIC NEVI (GCMN); NEUROCUTANEOUS MELANOSIS (NCM); TEMPORAL LOBES;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CONGENITAL MELANOCYTIC NEVI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOSIS; MENINX; NEUROCUTANEOUS MELANOBLASTOSIS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS); GIANT CONGENITAL MELANOCYTIC NEVI (GCMN); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); NEUROCUTANEOUS MELANOSIS (NCM); PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANINS; MELANOSIS; NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; PONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 84895784615     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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