Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis with IgG4-positive plasma cells detected by C-11 methionine PET

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 108-109

  Norikane, Takashi ^a   Yamamoto, Yuka ^a   Okada, Masaki ^b   Maeda, Yukito ^a   Aga, Fumitoshi ^a   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^b   Nishiyama, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C 11 methionine; Hypertrophic pachymeningitis; IgG4; PET

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; METHIONINE C 11; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC PACHYMENINGITIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA CELL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

DURA MATER; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MENINGITIS; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STEROIDS;

EID: 84856431682     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31823933c1     Document Type: Article

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