Fluorine-18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography studies of acute brainstem Lyme neutoborreliosis

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 927-929

  Plotkin, Michail ^a   Hautzel, Hubertus ^b   Krause, Bernd Joachim ^b   Mohr, Stephan ^b   Langen, Karl Josef ^b   Müller, Hans Wilhelm ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

18F fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; Lyme disease; Neuroborreliosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; LYME DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SCINTISCANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20144379069     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.5.0927     Document Type: Article

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