Does brain blood flow HMPAO SPECT withhold the vascular etiopathogenic theory of transient global amnesia?;¿Apoya el SPECT de perfusión cerebral la teoría etiopatogénica vascular de la amnesia global transitoria?

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 719-723

  Tabuenca Dopico, Olga ^a   Gutierrez Mendiguchia C ^a   Lorenzo Gonzalez J R ^a   Cimas Hernando, I ^a  

^a CENTRO MÉDICO POVISA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain perfusion SPECT; Central nervous system; Memory impairment; Transient global amnesia

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA, TRANSIENT GLOBAL; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 17644400577     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.3908.2004118     Document Type: Article

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