Technetium-99m HMPAO brain SPET findings of Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome.

episode, she experienced hemidystonia o of the face and extremities, accompan motor seizures with secondary genera seizures were uncontrolled with oral anti-ep treatment for the last month and she was a hospital. On physical examination, mild faci atrophy of the left side of the body and were noticed. Laboratory data were unremark To the Editor: Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrom was first described as a rare malformation in Dyke et al. based on plain radiographic films classical clinical triad consists of cerebral hem contralateral hemiparesis/hemiplegia, and Cerebrovascular insult that results in pare destruction or prolonged seizures leads to neu [2]. Possible causative factors also includ infection, ischemia and haemorrhage [3]. Alth radiological findings of this syndrome are well 7], only a few cases have been reported up t using nuclear imaging techniques [7-9]. A case has been described in which ipsilateral de metabolic activity of the atrophied left hemisp demonstrated by positron emission tomograp mapping left temporal lobe as an epileptic f Another case was diagnosed by brain single p emission tomography (SPET) using iodin iodoamphetamine (I-IMP) which indicated blood flow through the right cerebral hemisph patient had seizures in late childhood [8]. In a months old brain SPET by technetium cysteinate dimer (Tc-ECD) showed decreas of the right hemisphere with reduced b indicating DDMS [9]. To our knowledge ther other cases of DDMS reported in the english that indicate the usefullness of nuclear procedures. We recently encountered a 22 female patient who complained of prolonged seizures with weakness of the left upper limb exposed to left-sided paralysis since the age o with coexisting febrile convulsions. So MS) 3 by The