Functional cortical deafferentation from the subcortical structures in a patient with early myoclonic encephalopathy: A functional neuroimaging study

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 699-702

  Hirose, Mieko ^a   Haginoya, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Tanaka, Soichiro ^b   Uematsu, Mitsugu ^a   Kaneta, Tomohiro ^a   Takayanagi, Masaru ^d   Kon, Kimiya ^e   Yoshihara, Yasushi ^f   Iinuma, Kazuie ^g   Tsuchiya, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Takuto Rehabilitation Center for Children   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Children's Clinic Igarashi   (Japan)

^f Hospital and Home of Children with Physical Disabilities   (Japan)

^g JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early myoclonic encephalopathy; EIEE; EME; PET; Subtraction ictal SPECT; Suppression burst pattern

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DEAFFERENTATION; EARLY MYOCLONIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 77951656674     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02399.x     Document Type: Article

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