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Department of Urology, Jing’an District Central Hospital, Fudan University, 259 Xikang Rd, Shanghai, P.R. China

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Alterations of Brain Gray Matters in the Patients of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Evaluated by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  Author(s): Chuanyu Sun*, Qingfeng Hu, Guowei Xia, Yifan Tan, Shengyang Ge and Yijun Guo
  
  Background: Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a common disease in clinic of urology. Although the etiology of CP/CPPS is unclear, accumulating evidences reveals the central mechanisms like neuromodulation, neural plasticity and brain reorganization play a vital role in the pathophysiological mechanisms. As is acknowledged as a non-invasive and accurate instrument, resting-state Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been applied to investigate brain abnormalities of structure. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the brain structural alterations in the patients of CP/CPPS evaluated by measuring the brain gray matters through MRI. Materials and Methods: 50 patients of CP/CPPS and 50 matched healthy controls were recruited to scan T1- weighted MRI. Voxel-Based Morphome.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0250.22.11.256

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