Reduction of glucose metabolism in basal ganglia diagnosed with FDG-PET scan: A neuroacanthocytosis case

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 557-558

  Selcuk, Nalan A ^a   Fenercioglu, Aysen ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

basal ganglia; FDG PET; neuroacanthocytosis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROACANTHOCYTOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RARE DISEASE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROACANTHOCYTOSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954005089     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181e05d3f     Document Type: Article

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