PET Bitemporal Hypometabolism in Infantile Spasms

Abstract

A group of 18 infants (age range, 10 mo to 5 yr) with infantile spasms and a common metabolic pattern on positron emission tomography (PET) is reported from the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.

Keywords

• positron emission tomography
• infantile spasms
• bitemporal glucose hypometabolism