Hypoperfusion of right hemisphere on brain SPECT in a patient with exanthem subitum and left hemiparesis

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 223-225

  Ohta, Hitoya ^a   Watanabe, Yasuhiro ^a   Sumimoto, Shinichi ^a   Kojima, Noriyuki ^a   Ishigaki, Takashi ^a   Todo, Giro ^a   Nii, Masahiko ^a  

^a OSAKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Exanthem subitum; Human herpes virus 6; SPECT; Tc 99m HMPAO

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXANTHEMA SUBITUM; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033914244     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987864     Document Type: Article

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