Evaluation of amygdala pathology using 11C-methionine positron emission tomography/computed tomography in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and amygdala enlargement

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-121

  Sone, Daichi ^a,b   Ito, Kimiteru ^a   Taniguchi, Go ^c   Murata, Yoshiko ^a   Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a,d   Watanabe, Yutaka ^a   Okazaki, Mitsutoshi ^a   Sato, Noriko ^a   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Masako ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

11C methionine; Amygdala enlargement; Brain neoplasms; PET; PET CT; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; METHIONINE C 11; CARBON; METHIONINE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA ENLARGEMENT; AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SURGERY; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HAMARTOMA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LESIONECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PET-CT SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHIONINE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84926326280     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2015.02.018     Document Type: Article

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