Predictors of outcome after anterior temporal lobectomy: The intracarotid amobarbital test

Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 2325-2330

  Sperling, M R ^a,b   Saykin, A J ^a,b   Glosser, G ^a   Moran, M ^a   French, J A ^a,b   Brooks, M ^a   O'Connor, M J ^b  

^a GRADUATE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MENTAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL APPROACH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0027992908     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.44.12.2325     Document Type: Article

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