Spontaneous regression of intracranial arteriovenous malformation on PET

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1673-1676

  Ohmori, Yoshio ^a   Maekawa, Masayoshi ^a   Imahori, Yoshio ^a   Yoshino, Eiji ^a   Ueda, Satoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

arteriovenous malformation; PET; spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; METABOLIC RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029794635     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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