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Great balls of fire! The basal ganglia on fire

Sachin Manjunath, Boby Varkey Maramattom and Shagos GN Santhamma
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2022-0038
Clin Med May 2022
Sachin Manjunath
AAster Medcity, Kochi, India
Roles: trainee specialist doctor
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Boby Varkey Maramattom
BAster Medcity, Kochi, India
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Shagos GN Santhamma
CAster Medcity, Kochi, India
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    18Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography – computed tomography of the brain showing uniform diffuse hypermetabolism of bilateral basal ganglia with relative hypometabolism of rest of bilateral cerebral cortex. a) Axial plane. b) Coronal plane.

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Great balls of fire! The basal ganglia on fire
Sachin Manjunath, Boby Varkey Maramattom, Shagos GN Santhamma
Clinical Medicine May 2022, 22 (3) 276-277; DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0038

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