Serial evaluation of diffusion tensor brain fiber tracking in a patient with severe diffuse axonal injury.
Serial evaluation of diffusion tensor brain fiber tracking was performed in a 27-year-old female patient with diffuse axonal injury after a traffic accident. Although the result of brain fiber tracking was not necessarily parallel to her clinical symptoms, it may have predicted the neurologic prognosis.
Naganawa
Shinji
S
Department of Radiology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Sato
Chiho
C
Ishihra
Shunichi
S
Kumada
Hisashi
H
Ishigaki
Takeo
T
Miura
Shunichi
S
Watanabe
Masao
M
Maruyama
Katsuya
K
Takizawa
Osamu
O
D000328:Adult; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis; D020202:Cerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000473:pathology; D020833:Diffuse Axonal Injury / Q000175:diagnosis*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D016489:Head Injuries, Closed / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000473:pathology*; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis