Metamorphopsia and transient increase in the cerebral blood flow of the left occipital pole on 123I-IMP SPECT: A case report

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 631-635

  Satoh, Masayuki ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Miyamura, Masanori ^a   Katoh, Ruriko ^b   Kuzuhara, Shigeki ^c  

^a Department of Neurology ^*

^b Speech Ther Ise Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metamorphopsia; MRI; SPECT; Unformed visual hallucination

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

AMPHETAMINES; BRAIN; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; IOFETAMINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0030726529     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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