Comparative assessment of therapeutic response to physiotherapy with or without botulinum toxin injection using diffusion tensor tractography and clinical scores in term diplegic cerebral palsy children: Chaturvedi SK et al.

Abstract: The present study was to compare the effects of combined therapy [botulinum (BTX) plus physiotherapy] with physiotherapy alone using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) derived fractional anisotropy (FA) values of motor and sensory fiber bundles and clinical grade of the disability to see the value of BTX in term children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (CP). …

Brain Dev (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.braindev.2012.10.012
 
Autoren:
aurabh K. Chaturvedi  a,
Yogita Rai  a,
Ankita Chourasia  a,
Puneet Goel  b,
Vimal K Paliwal  c,
Ravindra K. Garg  d,
Ram Kishore S. Rathore  e,
Chandra M. Pandey  f,
Rakesh K. Gupta  a

 

Autoren-Details:
a Magnetic Resonance Section, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
b Department of Anesthesiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
c Department of Neurology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
d Department of Neurology, CSMMU, Lucknow, India
e Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
f Department of Biostatistics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India