Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT scanning in munchausen syndrome

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-52

  Mountz, James M ^a,e   Parker, Pamela E ^b   Liu, Hong Gang ^a   Bentley, Terry W ^c   Lill, Duncan W ^a   Deutsch, Georg ^d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Munchausen; rCBF; SPECT; Tc 99m HMPAO; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; VASCULARIZATION;

FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029684884     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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