Pediatric neuroimaging at a university hospital in Rwanda: a pictorial essay

Rwanda is a country of 12 million people with 41% of its population under the age of 14 years. Despite major improvements in health care since the 1994 genocide, pediatric neuroimaging in Rwanda remains challenging. Prenatal and advanced imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatric radiology 2019-05, Vol.49 (6), p.819-826
Hauptverfasser:	Taylor, George A., Vaughan, Jennifer A., Niyongabo, Patrick, Dusabe, Toussaint, Nyiraneza, Sabine
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Child Child, Preschool Children Female Hospitals, University Humans Imaging Imaging techniques Infant Infant, Newborn Magnetic resonance imaging Male Medical diagnosis Medical imaging Medicine Medicine & Public Health Neonates Neuroimaging Neuroimaging - statistics & numerical data Neurological diseases Neurology Neuroradiology NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance Nuclear Medicine Oncology Pediatrics Pictorial Essay Radiology Retrospective Studies Rwanda Tomography, X-Ray Computed Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial Ultrasound
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Zusammenfassung:	Rwanda is a country of 12 million people with 41% of its population under the age of 14 years. Despite major improvements in health care since the 1994 genocide, pediatric neuroimaging in Rwanda remains challenging. Prenatal and advanced imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are not widespread. As a result, many children with neurological diseases present unexpectedly as newborns or are in advanced stages of disease at diagnosis. The goal of this essay is to describe some unique features of the practice of pediatric neuroradiology in Rwanda in 2018.
ISSN:	0301-0449 1432-1998
DOI:	10.1007/s00247-018-4315-5