Regional cerebral blood flow in fibromyalgia: Single-photon-emission computed tomography evidence of reduction in the pontine tegmentum and thalami

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2823-2833

  Kwiatek, Richard ^a   Barnden, Leighton ^a   Tedman, Raymond ^b   Jarrett, Richard ^b   Chew, Jenni ^a   Rowe, Christopher ^a   Pile, Kevin ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; PONS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034538326     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200012)43:12<2823::AID-ANR24>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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