Magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography of band heterotopia.
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.
Miura
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Department of Pediatric Neurology, Central Hospital, Aichi Welfare Center for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, Japan.
Watanabe
K
K
Maeda
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N
Matsumoto
A
A
Kumagai
T
T
Ito
K
K
Kato
T
T
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