Multiple sclerosis in Italy: co ...
This study estimates the direct costs of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Italy from the perspective of the National Health System. Patients diagnosed wit ...
Medulloblastoma and gliomatosis ...
The simultaneous appearance of both multiple sclerosis (MS) and central nervous system (CNS) tumors is relatively uncommon. Whether the co-existence ...
Treatment of Chiari malformatio ...
There is no effective alternative to surgery in the treatment of the symptomatic cases of chiari malformation. Nonetheless, in literature there is n ...
Inherited and somatic mitochond ...
There is increasing evidence for mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders, although the exact role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) muta ...
Can diffusion tensor metrics he ...
Introduction Diffusion weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) give information about the amount and directionality of water diffusion o ...
Mammillotegmental tract in the ...
Introduction Several animal studies have been conducted for the identification of the mammillotegmental tract (MTT); however, no study has been repo ...
Clinical outcome and imaging fo ...
Introduction Acute stroke multimodal CT imaging (MMCT: non-enhanced CT, CTangiography, and CT perfusion (CTP)) may show normal results despite persi ...
Flow-sensitive alternating inve ...
Introduction To evaluate the hypothesis that flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can detect retrogr ...
The appearance of ADCs in the n ...
Introduction The exact mechanism of the mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) remain unclear. Dif ...
Early CT signs of progressive h ...
Introduction Since progressive hemorrhagic injury (PHI) was introduced in neurosurgical literatures, several studies have been performed, the result ...
Magnetic resonance imaging spec ...
Introduction Two medulloblastoma variants were recently added to the WHO classification of CNS tumours. We retrospectively analysed the imaging find ...
Use of diffusion tensor imaging ...
Introduction We performed diffusion tensor imaging to determine if multiple system atrophy (MSA)-cerebellar (C) and MSA-Parkinsonism (P) show simila ...
Microstructural brain injury in ...
Introduction After minor head injury (MHI), postconcussive symptoms commonly occur. The purpose of this study was to correlate the severity of post- ...
Brachial and lumbar plexuses in ...
Introduction Our purpose was to clarify the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging characteristics of the brachial and lumbar plexuses in patients with chr ...
Categorization and characteriza ...
Introduction The apex of the orbit is formed by the union of the lesser and greater wings of the sphenoid bone and acts as an osseous tunnel for num ...
MTR variations in normal adult ...
Introduction Magnetization transfer (MT) is sensitive to the macromolecular environment of water protons and thereby provides information not obtain ...
Accuracy and reproducibility of ...
Introduction Although several reports about volumetric determination of the pituitary gland exist, volumetries have been solely performed by indirec ...
Presence of a central vein with ...
Introduction Susceptibility weighted imaging depicts the perivenous extent of multiple sclerosis white matter lesions (MS-WML) in vivo by directly v ...
Glioma grade assessment by usin ...
Introduction Current endeavors in neuro-oncology include morphological validation of imaging methods by histology, including molecular and immunohis ...
Comparison of volumetric method ...
Introduction Change in tumor size is a frequent endpoint in cancer clinical trials, but whether change in size should be measured using volume on tw ...
Decreased CSF-flow artefacts in ...
Introduction The cervical spine is prone to artefacts in T2 MR-imaging due to patient movements and cerebrospinal fluid flow. The periodically rotat ...
Subtraction of unidirectionally ...
Introduction The aim of this study was to introduce and assess a new magnetic resonance (MR) technique for selective peripheral nerve imaging, calle ...
Evaluation of the characteristi ...
Introduction In coil embolization for an intracranial aneurysm, it is important to appropriately choose the coil most suitable for coping with vario ...
Thalamus lesions in chronic and ...
Introduction Transient signal changes in the pulvinar have been described following status epilepticus. However, we observed persistent thalamus cha ...
Diagnostic examination performa ...
Introduction Conventional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has limited capacity to differentiate between glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and metastasis ...