Technetium-99m-ECD SPECT fails to show focal hyperemia of acute herpes encephalitis

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 790-792

  Fazekas, Franz ^a   Roob, Gudrun ^b   Payer, Franz ^b   Kapeller, Peter ^b   Strasser Fuchs, Siegrid ^b   Aigner, Reingard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Herpes simplex encephalitis; SPECT; Technetium 99m ethyl cysteinate dimer; Technetium 99m hexamethyl propyleneamine oxime; Tracer uptake

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INFLAMMATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BRAIN; CYSTEINE; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031955944     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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