Magnetic resonance imaging of brain abnormalities in patients with the Nijmegen breakage syndrome

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 503-509

  Bekiesińska Figatowska, Monika ^a   Chrzanowska, Krystyna H ^b   Jurkiewicz, Elzbieta ^b   Wakulińska, Anna ^b   Rysiewski, Henryk ^b   Gładkowska Dura, Małgorzata ^b   Walecki, Jerzy ^c  

^a Central Railway Hospital Warsaw   (Poland)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain anomalies; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RADIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NIJMEGEN BREAKAGE SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY IMMUNE RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 9644279758     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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