MRI/MRA evaluation of sickle cell disease of the brain.
Zimmerman RA
Department of Radiology, Childrens Hospital, 34th St and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. ZIMMERMAN@email.chop.edu
Sickle cell disease is a major cause of pediatric stroke. Understanding the disease that affects the brain as infarctions, both clinically apparent and silent, requires an understanding of how the blood vessels are affected, the way in which both the brain and the blood vessels are imaged by MRI and MRA and the mechanism of injury.
Published 9 March 2005 in Pediatr Radiol, 35(3): 249-57.
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