Focal cerebral perfusion defects demonstrated by 99mTc-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime SPECT in elderly depressed patients

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-70

  Vasile, Russell G ^a   Schwartz, Richard B ^b   Garada, Basem ^b   Holman, B Leonard ^b   Alpert, Marilyn ^a   Davidson, Paul B ^a   Schildkraut, Joseph J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective disorder; Aging; Frontal lobe; Geriatric psychiatry; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030070943     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4927(96)02689-3     Document Type: Article

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