Familial painful restless legs syndrome correlates with pain dependent variation of blood flow to the caudate, thalamus, and anterior cingulate gyrus

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2270-2275

  San Pedro, Elmer C ^a   Mountz, James M ^a,d   Mountz, John D ^b   Liu, Hong Gang ^a   Katholi, Charles R ^c   Deutsch, Georg ^a  

^a Division of Nuclear Medicine

^b Division of Rheumatology

^c Dept of Biostatist and Mathematics ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain spect 99mTc HMPAO; Familial restless legs syndrome; Pain

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031763673     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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