Injury of the arcuate fasciculus in the dominant hemisphere in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: A retrospective cross-sectional study

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Jang, Sung Ho ^a   Lee, Ah Young ^a   Shin, So Min ^a  

^a Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARCUATE FASCICULUS INJURY; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH DISORDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT;

ADULT; APHASIA; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84962621782     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003007     Document Type: Article

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