Evaluation of two patients with SCA2 with frontal lobe dysfunction using brain SPECT with three-dimensional stereotactic surface projections (3D-SSP)

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-26

  Shimohata, Takayoshi ^a   Matsuzawa, Yoko ^a   Tanaka, Koumei ^a   Onodera, Osamu ^a   Tanaka, Keiko ^a   Nishizawa, Masatoyo ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D SSP; Frontal lobe dysfunction; SCA2; SPECT; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL STEREOTACTIC SURFACE PROJECTION; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 13444269191     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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