MR imaging findings in mild traumatic brain injury with persistent neurological impairment

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue , 2017, Pages 243-251

  Trifan, Gabriela ^a   Gattu, Ramtilak ^b   Haacke, Ewart Mark ^b,c   Kou, Zhifeng ^b,c   Benson, Randall R ^a  

^a Center for Neurological Studies   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agerelated; Deep; Detection; Flair; Fluid attenuated inversion recovery; Hyperintensities; Litigation; Microhemorrhage; Mild TBI; MRI; Post concussive symptoms; Sensitivity; Subcortical; Susceptibility weighted imaging; SWI; Traumatic brain injury; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; GRAY MATTER; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCORTEX; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER LESION; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85002680350     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2016.12.009     Document Type: Article

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