Photophobia in essential blepharospasm - A positron emission tomographic study

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-439

  Emoto, Hirofumi ^a,b   Suzuki, Yukihisa ^a,b   Wakakura, Masato ^c   Horie, Chiharu ^a,b   Kiyosawa, Motohiro ^b   Mochizuki, Manabu ^b   Kawasaki, Keiichi ^a   Oda, Keiichi ^a   Ishiwata, Kiichi ^a   Ishii, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Inoue Eye Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Essential blepharospasm; Photophobia; Positron emission tomography; Superior colliculus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BLINKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL BLEPHAROSPASM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOPHOBIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BLEPHAROSPASM; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTOPHOBIA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 77949533333     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22916     Document Type: Article

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