Perfusion status of the stroke-like lesion at the hyperacute stage in MELAS

Brain and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 158-164

  Yeh, Hsu Ling ^a   Chen, Yen Kung ^a,b   Chen, Wei Hung ^a,c   Wang, Han Cheng ^a,c,d   Chiu, Hou Chang ^a,b   Lien, Li Ming ^a,c   Wei, Yau Huei ^e,f  

^a SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e MACKAY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; MELAS; SPECT; TCCS

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FOLLOW UP; HEMIANOPIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELAS SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE LIKE LESION; TRANSCRANIAL COLORCODED SONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PERFUSION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STROKE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84872418848     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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