Cerebellar blood flow in methylmercury poisoning (Minamata disease)

Neuroradiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 279-284

  Itoh, K ^a   Korogi, Y ^a   Tomiguchi, S ^a   Takahashi, M ^a   Okajima, T ^a   Sato, H ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellar atrophy; Cerebellar blood flow; Magnetic resonance imaging; Minamata disease; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; METHYLMERCURY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MINAMATA DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035066907     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002340000462     Document Type: Article

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