title: Magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography of band heterotopia.
abstract: A case of band heterotopia was reported with findings of positron emission tomography (PET). The patient was an 8-year-old girl who had mild mental retardation and intractable partial epilepsy. Her MRI showed another diffuse layer of gray matter underlying the normal-looking cortex and separated from it by an apparently normal layer of white matter. PET scan with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose revealed that band heterotopia had the same degree of glucose metabolism as that of the overlying cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Neurology, Central Hospital, Aichi Welfare Center for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D002648:Child; D002828:Choristoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011859:Radiography; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed