High amino acid uptake in a low-grade desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma in a 14-year-old patient

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-35

  Woesler, Burkhard ^a,b   Kuwert, Torsten ^a   Kurlemann, Gerhard ^a   Morgenroth, Carlo ^a   Probst Cousin, Stefan ^a   Lerch, Hartmut ^a   Gullotta, Filippo ^a   Wassmann, Hansdetlef ^a   Schober, Otmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma; Iodine 123 methyl tyrosine; SPECT

Indexed keywords

IODINE 123; METIROSINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDEMA; GLIOMA; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TINNITUS;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHA-METHYLTYROSINE; AMINO ACIDS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031776818     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01111482     Document Type: Article

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