Correlates of Arterial-Filling Patterns in the Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 712-716

  Perrine, Kenneth ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Luciano, Daniel J ^b   Choi, I Sup ^b   Nelson, Peter Kim ^b  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PERFUSION PRESSURE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL;

EID: 0029031934     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1995.00540310086020     Document Type: Article

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