title: CT appearance of children in a persistent vegetative state.
abstract: A morphometric CT study was performed on 17 children who were in a persistent vegetative state. Four cases with compromised brain stem function (group 1) showed a significantly smaller lateral pontine ratio (LPR, width of pons/greatest internal diameter between temporal bone) than the remaining 13 cases with preserved brain stem function (group 2) and controls. LPR was considered a useful indicator of brain stem atrophy and to correlate well with brain stem function.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Neurology, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mutoh
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hojo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003128:Coma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed