Brain perfusion SPECT in limbic encephalitis associated with autoantibody against the glutamate receptor epsilon 2

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-48

  Kimura, Noriyuki ^a   Kumamoto, Toshihide ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoantibody against the glutamate; Brain perfusion SPECT; EZIS analysis; Non herpetic limbic encephalitis; Receptor epsilon 2

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EPSILON 2 AUTOANTIBODY; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EPSILON 2; CYSTEINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NR2B NMDA RECEPTOR; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PERFUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; AGITATION; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COLLIMATOR; CONVULSION; DELIRIUM; DISORIENTATION; EASY Z SCORE IMAGING SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; GAMMA CAMERA; HALLUCINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; AUTOANTIBODY AGAINST THE GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EPSILON 2; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION SPECT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EZIS ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NON-HERPETIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

AUTOANTIBODY AGAINST THE GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EPSILON 2; BRAIN PERFUSION SPECT; EZIS ANALYSIS; NON-HERPETIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYSTEINE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893017632     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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