11C-methionine positron emission tomography in nontumorous brain lesions

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 985-995

  Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Okauchi, Masanobu ^a   Miyake, Keisuke ^a   Sasakawa, Yasuhiro ^b   Yamamoto, Yuka ^b   Nishiyama, Yoshihiro ^b   Tamiya, Takashi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

11C methionine; Nontumorous brain lesion; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE C 11; CARBON; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHIONINE;

ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROSURGERY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; ORBIT DISEASE; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; ORBITAL DISEASES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649416762     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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