Vasogenic edema characterizes pediatric acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

Neuroradiology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 679-684

  Zuccoli, Giulio ^a   Panigrahy, Ashok ^a   Sreedher, Gayathri ^a   Bailey, Ariel ^a   Laney, Ernest John ^a,b   Colla, Luca ^c,d   Alper, Gulay ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; ADC; ADEM; DWI; Vasogenic edema

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TISSUE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGE; COMPLICATION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, ACUTE DISSEMINATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905906602     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: 14321920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-014-1379-2     Document Type: Article

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