Clinical and neuroimaging features as diagnostic guides in neonatal neurology diseases with cerebellar involvement

Cerebellum and Ataxias

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Klein, Jessica L ^a,b   Lemmon, Monica E ^a,c   Northington, Frances J ^a   Boltshauser, Eugen ^d   Huisman, Thierry A G M ^a   Poretti, Andrea ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Neonatal neurology; Neonate; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

SULFITE OXIDASE;

ACQUIRED CEREBELLAR LESION; AICARDI GOUTIERES SYNDROME; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SINOVENOUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; CONGENITAL CEREBELLAR TUMOR; CONGENITAL DISORDER OF GLYCOSYLATION; CONGENITAL NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPLASIA; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCINEMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFECTION; JOUBERT SYNDROME; MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE; NEONATAL NEUROLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PONTINE TEGMENTAL CAP DYSPLASIA; PONTOCEREBELLAR HYPOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALOSYNAPSIS; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SULFITE OXIDASE DEFICIENCY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 85044529749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20538871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40673-016-0039-1     Document Type: Review

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