Preliminary evaluation of cerebral F-DOPA PET/CT in the differential diagnosis of brain lesions in inconclusive MR.

Aim: To evaluate the utility of brain F-DOPA PET/CT in the differential diagnosis of brain lesions with inconclusive MRI.

Material And Methods: Twelve patients were studied, with a total of 16 lesions, without definitive diagnosis after brain MRI. A double acquisition PET/CT brain scan was acquired at 20 and 90min.

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Aim: To evaluate the utility of brain F-DOPA PET/CT in the differential diagnosis of brain lesions with inconclusive MRI.

Material And Methods: Twelve patients were studied, with a total of 16 lesions, without definitive diagnosis after brain MRI. A double acquisition PET/CT brain scan was acquired at 20 and 90 minutes.

Acute ischemic stroke in anterior choroidal artery territory.

Objective: The aim of the study was to describe a series of patients with acute ischemic infarct in the anterior choroidal artery (AChA) territory. Moreover, we analyzed the prevalence of these strokes and compared them with hemispheric and deep infarcts. Finally, we hypothesized that the size of the infarct could be related to aetiology and prognosis.

[A comparative study of pragmatic language disorders and autism spectrum disorders using magnetoencephalography].

Introduction: Pragmatics refers to the social use of language; its precursors are already present during the process of maturing, during the preverbal stage, and become manifest when the child starts to point and to share his or her attention with another person. In cases of specific language impairment (SLI) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) it can be altered to varying degrees.

Patients And Methods: Due to the difficulties involved in diagnosis from a clinical point of view, we carried out a study by means of magnetoencephalography (MEG) on a series of 11 patients who had SLI and another series of 9 patients with ASD, in order to determine whether MEG is capable of distinguishing these diagnoses.

[Specific language disorders: their diagnosis, classification and study using magnetoencephalography].

Introduction: Specific language disorder (SLD) is defined as a disorder in which language is slow and retarded with respect to the patient's chronological age, and which is not related to a sensory-auditory or motor deficit or to a pervasive development disorder; in other words, structural and functional neurological developmental disorders must be excluded. After many studies and attempts to reach an agreement, specific language disorders have been broadly classified into two groups: specific expressive language disorder and specific receptive-expressive language disorder.

Aims: Our objective was to study SLD using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in order to look for epileptiform manifestations in precise language areas.