Single-photon emission CT findings in acute Japanese encephalitis

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 465-469

  Kimura, Kazumi ^a,c   Dosaka, Akihiro ^a   Hashimoto, Yoichiro ^a   Yasunaga, Tadamasa ^a   Uchino, Makoto ^b   Ando, Masayuki ^b  

^a Kumamoto City (Japan) Hospital   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030987152     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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