A case of hemichorea with hyperglycemia presenting with low signal intensity in the striatum on T2*-weighted gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-90

  Suto, Yutaka ^a,b   Mori, Masatada ^a   Kagimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Saito, Jun ^a  

^a SHIMANE PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ballism; Chorea; Hyperglycemia; Petechial hemorrhage; T2* weighted gradient echo MRI

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; TIAPRIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN; CHOREA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOSTRIATUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3042836339     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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