Diffusion tensor imaging study of white matter damage in chronic meningitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Wei Che ^a   Chen, Pei Chin ^a   Wang, Hung Chen ^a   Tsai, Nai Wen ^a   Chou, Kun Hsien ^b   Chen, Hsiu Ling ^a   Su, Yu Jih ^a   Lin, Ching Po ^b   Li, Shau Hsuan ^a   Chang, Wen Neng ^a   Lu, Cheng Hsien ^a,c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; SCORING SYSTEM; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ANISOTROPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; VIROLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIV; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84902530659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098210     Document Type: Article

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