Imaging of the developmentally delayed child.
Neuroimaging can aid in determining the causes of developmental delay in a child. Information from neuroimaging examinations may help guide further testing and treatment in these children. This article emphasizes the neuroimaging approaches, modalities, and features in the child with developmental delay. The common causative categories of developmental delay are reviewed.
Young Poussaint
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Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D004453:Echoencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler