Metabolic scoring in autoimmune epilepsy-Should APE scores be modified?

Madhavi TripathiArun Raj Sreedharan ThankarajanKavish IhtishamAjay GargDeepti VibhaRajesh SinghBhargavi RamanujamEla VarsiChandrasekhar BalManjari Tripathi

Published in: Acta neurologica Scandinavica (2020)

The inclusion of metabolic information from PET distinctly improved (the sensitivity of) APE scores to predict autoimmune origin even in antibody negative cases. A larger prospective study of similar type could justify adoption of FDG-PET into the standard diagnostic procedure.

Keyphrases

pet ct
positron emission tomography
pet imaging
computed tomography
multiple sclerosis
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drug induced
electronic health record
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