Evidence for early, non-lesional cerebellar damage in patients with multiple sclerosis: DTI measures correlate with disability, atrophy, and disease duration

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-84

  Deppe, Michael ^a   Tabelow, Karsten ^b   Krämer, Julia ^a   Tenberge, Jan Gerd ^a   Schiffler, Patrick ^a   Bittner, Stefan ^a   Schwindt, Wolfram ^a   Zipp, Frauke ^c   Wiendl, Heinz ^a   Meuth, Sven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

atrophy; cerebellum; degeneration; Diffusion tensor imaging; multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; PENTETIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; TURBO SPIN ECHO; WHITE MATTER; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; GRAY MATTER; RANGE OF MOTION; ATROPHY; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951033492     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458515579439     Document Type: Article

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