Kleine-Levin syndrome: Contribution of brain SPECT in diagnosis;Síndrome de Kleine-Levin: Aportación diagnóstica de la SPECT cerebral

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 531-533

  Arias, M ^c   Crespo Iglesias, J M ^a   Perez J ^a   Requena Caballero, I ^d   Sesar Ignacio, A ^d   Peleteiro Fernandez M ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CONXO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c Instituto Ramón Piñeiro   (Spain)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Frontal lobe; Kleine Levin syndrome; SPECT

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ADOLESCENT; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DROWSINESS; EXHIBITIONISM; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MASTURBATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RELAPSE; REM SLEEP; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; BRAIN; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; KLEINE-LEVIN SYNDROME; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0043037778     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.3506.2002264     Document Type: Article

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