Central pain after pontine infarction is associated with changes in opioid receptor binding: A PET study with 11C-diprenorphine

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 686-690

  Willoch, Frode ^a   Tölle, Thomas Rudolf ^b   Wester, Hans Jürgen ^b   Munz, Frank ^b   Petzold, Axel ^b   Schwaiger, Markus ^b   Conrad, Bastian ^b   Bartenstein, Peter ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIPRENORPHINE C11; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; OPIATE RECEPTOR; TRAMADOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSESTHESIA; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT;

ADULT; AGED; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIPRENORPHINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PAIN; PONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SENSATION DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0342646955     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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