Metabolic abnormalities in pain-processing regions of patients with fibromyalgia: A 3T MR spectroscopy study

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1585-1590

  Feraco, Paola ^a   Bacci, A ^a   Pedrabissi, Fab ^b   Passamonti, L ^c   Zampogna, G ^d   Pedrabissi, Fed ^e   Malavolta, N ^b   Leonardi, M ^a  

^a BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLITE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; CHRONIC PAIN; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDES; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 80054030213     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2550     Document Type: Article

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