Positron emission tomographic evaluation for frontal hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis using 11C-methyl-L-methionine

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 287-293

  Takahashi, Masataka ^a   Sasajima, Toshio ^a   Mineura, Katsuyoshi ^a   Itoh, Yasunobu ^a   Kowada, Masayoshi ^a   Iwaya, Kouki ^a   Hatazawa, Jun ^b   Ogawa, Toshihide ^b   Okudera, Toshio ^b   Murakami, Matsutaro ^b   Uemura, Kazuo ^b  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

Author keywords

(11C methyl) L methionine; Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis; MRI; PET

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029887944     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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