Focal cortical malformations can show asymmetrically higher uptake on interictal fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET)

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-237

  Poduri, Annapurna ^a   Golja, Anna ^a   Takeoka, Masanori ^a   Bourgeois, Blaise F D ^a   Connolly, Leonard ^a   Riviello, James J ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; FDG PET; Malformation of cortical development

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; DRUG UPTAKE; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34249854688     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073807300305     Document Type: Article

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