Longitudinal brain white matter alterations in minimal hepatic encephalopathy before and after liver transplantation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Wei Che ^a   Chou, Kun Hsien ^b   Chen, Chao Long ^a   Chen, Hsiu Ling ^a,b   Lu, Cheng Hsien ^a   Li, Shau Hsuan ^a   Huang, Chu Chung ^b   Lin, Ching Po ^b   Cheng, Yu Fan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN WHITE MATTER ALTERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLAUSTRUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMYELINATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WHITE MATTER;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84924897831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105887     Document Type: Article

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