Decreased thalamic metabolism without thalamic magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities following shearing injury to the substantia nigra

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 685-688

  Nakamizo, Akira ^a   Inamura, Takanori ^a   Amano, Toshiyuki ^a   Inoha, Satoshi ^a   Tokuda, Kentaro ^a   Yasuda, Osamu ^b   Ikezaki, Kiyonobu ^a   Fukui, Masashi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffuse axonal injury; Levodopa; Positron emission tomography (PET); Rigidity; Shearing injury; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0036852661     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jocn.2002.1146     Document Type: Article

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