Assessment of fetal tissue transplantation in Parkinson's disease: does PET play a role?

Neurology. 1994 Oct;44(10):1777-80. doi: 10.1212/wnl.44.10.1777.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain Tissue Transplantation / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Tissue Transplantation / physiology
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine / analogs & derivatives
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine / pharmacokinetics
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Fetal Tissue Transplantation / diagnostic imaging*
  • Fetal Tissue Transplantation / physiology
  • Fluorine Radioisotopes / pharmacokinetics
  • Humans
  • Neostriatum / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neostriatum / metabolism
  • Neostriatum / transplantation*
  • Parkinson Disease / diagnostic imaging
  • Parkinson Disease / surgery*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Fluorine Radioisotopes
  • fluorodopa F 18
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine