Transient frontal hypoperfusion in Tc-99m hexamethylpropyleneamineoxime single photon emission computed tomography imaging during alcohol withdrawal

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 923-928

  Tutus, Ahmet ^a   Kuǧu, Nesim ^a   Sofuoǧlu, Seher ^a   Nardali, Mehmet ^a   Şimşek, Aytül ^a   Karaaslan, Fatih ^a   Gönül, Ali Saffet ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alcohol withdrawal; Brain single photon computed emission tomography; HMPAO; Regional cerebral blood flow; Tc 99m

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ETHANOL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0345267306     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(97)00322-3     Document Type: Article

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