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Advantage of 11C-methionine positron emission tomography for assessing IgG4-related central nervous system lesions

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This study describes activities performed in patients during the course of appropriate diagnostic examinations and therapy in clinical practice. It is not a clinical study or trial and therefore did not require submission to an Ethics Committee. All activities were performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. The authors hereby declare that the research documented in the submitted manuscript has been carried out in accordance with the above stated ethical standards.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, Japan

    Kodai Kume, Kazushi Deguchi & Tsutomu Masaki

  2. Department of Neurological Intractable Disease Research, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, Japan

    Kazuyo Ikeda & Masaki Kamada

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, Japan

    Masaki Okada & Takashi Tamiya

  4. Department of Health Sciences, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, Japan

    Tetsuo Touge

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Kume, K., Ikeda, K., Deguchi, K. et al. Advantage of 11C-methionine positron emission tomography for assessing IgG4-related central nervous system lesions. J Neurol 261, 625–627 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-014-7269-z

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