Tc-99m ethylcysteinate dimer SPECT in the differential diagnosis of dementias

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 857-862

  Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a   Vibha, Deepti ^a   Gowda, Naveen ^a   Bal, Chandrashekhar ^a   Malhotra, Arun ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's dementia; frontotemporal dementia; SPECT; Tc 99m ECD

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; ETHYLCYSTEINATE TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CYSTEINE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 78650441628     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.73745     Document Type: Article

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