Serial evaluation of diffusion tensor brain fiber tracking in a patient with severe diffuse axonal injury

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2004 Oct;25(9):1553-6.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Ventricles / pathology
  • Corpus Callosum / pathology
  • Diffuse Axonal Injury / diagnosis*
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Glasgow Coma Scale
  • Head Injuries, Closed / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Nerve Fibers / pathology*
  • Neurologic Examination
  • Parietal Lobe / pathology
  • Prognosis