De Volder A, Ghilain S, de Barsy T, Goffinet A M
Positron Tomography Laboratory, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
J Comput Assist Tomogr. 1988 Sep-Oct;12(5):854-7. doi: 10.1097/00004728-198809010-00024.
Regional brain glucose metabolism has been studied in a case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with ragged red fibers, using positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose as the tracer. A marked decrease in glucose utilization was found in all gray structures, with a preponderance of metabolic alterations in posterior cortical regions and thalamus and a relative sparing of anterior cortical areas and basal nuclei.
