Thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomographic and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic characteristics of intracranial ganglioglioma: Three technical case reports

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-187

  Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Shimizu, Hiroaki ^b   Sonoda, Yukihiko ^a   Shirane, Reizo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ganglioglioma; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Thallium 201 single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; CREATINE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; THALLIUM 201;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; CHOLINE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033060242     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199907000-00045     Document Type: Article

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