Intracartotid amobarbital procedure memory performance and age at first risk for seizures distinguish between lateral neocortical and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1088-1092

  Hamberger, Marla J ^a,b   Walczak, Thaddeus S ^a   Goodman, Robert R ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amobarbital; Epilepsy; Risk factor; Temporal lobe; Wada test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 0029823715     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb01029.x     Document Type: Article

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