Prenatal imaging of occipital encephaloceles

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 241-248

  Kasprian, Gregor J ^a   Paldino, Michael J ^b,c   Mehollin Ray, Amy R ^b,c   Shetty, Anil ^b,d   Williams, Jennifer L ^b,c   Lee, Wesley ^b,d   Cassady, Chris I ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Texas Children's Pavilion for Women ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brain malformations; Ciliopathy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fetal neurology; Joubert syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENCEPHALOCELE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MESENCEPHALON; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

CEREBRUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84926407476     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000366159     Document Type: Review

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