Imaging of Bilateral Striopallidodentate Calcinosis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 721-724

  Ogi, Shigeyuki ^a,b   Fukumitsu, Nobuyoshi ^a   Tsuchida, Daisuke ^a   Uchiyama, Mayuki ^a   Mori, Yutaka ^a   Matsui, Kazutaka ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Fahr's Disease; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; SPECT; Striopallidodentate Calcinosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FAHR DISEASE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRIOPALLIDODENTATE CALCINOSIS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ATAXIA; BRAIN DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; DYSARTHRIA; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

CYSTEINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M BICISATE;

AGED; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CYSTEINE; DYSARTHRIA; GAIT ATAXIA; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PARALYSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THALAMIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036777802     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200210000-00008     Document Type: Article

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