Cerebral blood flow in basal ganglia is correlated with clinical signs of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis [4]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 763-764

  Iwasa, Motoh ^a   Kaito, Masahiko ^a   Adachi, Yukihiko ^a   Watanabe, Yuri ^a   Matsumura, Kaname ^a   Takeda, Kan ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0036126293     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(01)04132-6     Document Type: Letter

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