Evaluation of cingulate gyrus blood flow in patients with liver cirrhosis

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-17

  Iwasa, Motoh ^a   Matsumura, Kaname ^a   Nakagawa, Yuri ^a   Yamamoto, Mika ^a   Tanaka, Hideaki ^a   Horiike, Shinichiro ^a   Ikoma, Jiro ^a   Kaito, Masahiko ^a   Takeda, Kan ^a   Adachi, Yukihiko ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Cerebral blood flow; Hepatic encephalopathy; Liver cirrhosis; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; RADIOLOGIST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 21044436756     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-005-2472-3     Document Type: Article

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