Recurrent pain attacks in a 3-year-old patient with myoclonus epilepsy associated with ragged-red fibers (MERRF): A single-photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) and electrophysiological study

Brain and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 205-208

  Tanaka, Soichiro ^a   Osari, Shin Ichi ^a   Ozawa, Matsuko ^a   Yamanouchi, Hideo ^a   Goto, Yu Ichi ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Nonaka, Ikuya ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central pain; Cytochrome c; MERRF; SPECT; Thalamic hypoperfusion

Indexed keywords

COCARBOXYLASE; CYTOCHROME C; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE;

ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; MERRF SYNDROME; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MERRF SYNDROME; PAIN; RECURRENCE; THALAMUS; THIAMINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030905426     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(96)00558-X     Document Type: Article

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