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Characteristics of early MRI in children and adolescents with vanishing white matter.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Feb 2012
van der Lei Hannemieke D, Steenweg Marjan E, Barkhof Frederik, de Grauw Ton, d'Hooghe Marc, Morton Richard, Shah Siddharth, Wolf Nicole, van der Knaap Marjo S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: MRI in vanishing white matter typically shows diffuse abnormality of the cerebral white matter, which becomes increasingly rarefied and cystic. We investigated the MRI characteristics preceding this stage. DESIGN: In a retrospective observational study, we evaluated all available MRIs in our database of DNA-confirmed VWM patients and selected MRIs without diffuse cerebral white matter abnormalities and...
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