title: Bilateral anterior opercular syndrome: localizing value of SPECT and MRI.
abstract: Bilateral anterior opercular syndrome is clinically characterized by facio-pharyngo-glossomasticatory diplegia due to bilateral opercular lesions. Reported cases of the syndrome have been relatively rare probably because of difficulty in determining opercular damage on clinical symptoms alone. We report a case of this syndrome in whom bilateral opercular damage could be detected not by CT, but suggested by SPECT, and confirmed by MR imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Iwate Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tohgi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010243:Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013577:Syndrome; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed