SPECT revealed cortical dysfunction in a patient who had genetically definite megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 526-530

  Kiriyama, Takao ^a   Tanizawa, Emi ^a   Hirano, Makito ^a   Shinkai, Takayuki ^a   Asai, Hirohide ^a   Furiya, Yoshiko ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

GABA receptor; Iomazenil; Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy; MLC1; MRI; SPECT

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; IODINE 123; IOMAZENIL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MEGALENCEPHALIC LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TENDON REFLEX; TONIC SEIZURE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ASTROCYTES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CEPHALOMETRY; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CODON; CONSANGUINITY; CYSTEINE; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES, RECESSIVE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEUCINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; SERINE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34249072297     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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