Diagnostic accuracy and limitations of post-mortem MRI for neurological abnormalities in fetuses and children

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 872-880

  Arthurs, O J ^a,b   Thayyil, S ^c,f   Pauliah, S S ^c   Jacques, T S ^a   Chong, W K ^a,b,g   Gunny, R ^a,b   Saunders, D ^a,b   Addison, S ^c   Lally, P ^c   Cady, E ^d   Jones, R ^a,e   Norman, W ^a,e   Scott, R ^d   Robertson, N J ^e   Wade, A ^b   Chitty, L ^a,b,d   Taylor, A M ^a,e   Sebire, N J ^a,b,g   Addison, Shea ^f   Ashworth, Michael ^g   Bainbridge, Alan ^f   Brookes, Jocelyn ^h   Chitty, Lyn ^g   Cook, Andrew ^f   De Vita, Enrico ^f   Gunny, Roxana ^g   Harding, Brian ^g   Jacques, Tom ^g   Jones, Rod ^f   Lythgoe, Mark ^e   Malone, Marion ^g   Norman, Wendy ^f   Olsen, Oystein ^g   Owens, Catherine M ^g   Offiah, Amaka C ⁱ   Robertson, Nicola ^h   Risdon, Tony ^g   Scott, Rosemary ^h   Saunders, Dawn ^g   Schievano, Silvia ^f   Scales, Angie ^g   Taylor, Andrew ^f   Wade, Angie ^f   more..

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UCL   (United States)

^g Department of Perinatal and Paediatric Developmental Pathology GOSH   (United States)

^h UCH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FETUS; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENTAL CONSENT; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FETUS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84936985317     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2015.04.008     Document Type: Article

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