Surgery for Intractable Infantile Spasms: Neuroimaging Perspectives

Epilepsia

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 764-771

  Chugani, Harry T ^a   Shewmon, D Alan ^a   Shields, W Donald ^a   Sankar, Raman ^a   Comair, Youssef ^b   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Peacock, Warwick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical dy splasia; Epilepsy; Infantile spasms; Neuroimaging; Neurosurgery; Positron emission tomography; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOSE; NITRAZEPAM; STEROID; THIOPENTAL; VALPROIC ACID;

BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEST SYNDROME;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEOXYGLUCOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUDEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0027284514     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1993.tb00459.x     Document Type: Article

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