Serial 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1785-1789

  Scheid, Rainer ^a,b   Lincke, Thomas ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^c   Von Cramon, D Yves ^a,b   Sabri, Osama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG ACCUMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; ADULT; CASE REPORT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEMINOMA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 7744223746     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.11.1785     Document Type: Review

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