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SPECT Imaging of Arachnoid Cysts

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Current neuroimaging methods provide only morphological details of arachnoid cysts (ACs), but they do not provide information about cerebral function. Here we review the diagnosis and imaging findings of ACs specifically utilizing single photon emission computed tomography imaging.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elias Rizk

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Türkiye

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    Ali Akhaddar

  3. Department of Radiology, Ankara Medipol University, Ankara, Türkiye

    Ahmet T. Turgut

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Walter A. Hall

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Rizk, E. (2023). SPECT Imaging of Arachnoid Cysts. In: Turgut, M., Akhaddar, A., Turgut, A.T., Hall, W.A. (eds) Arachnoid Cysts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22701-1_17

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