Localized cerebellar hypometabolism in patients with complex partial seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 781-787

  Savic, Ivanka ^a,b,c   Altshuler, Lori ^a   Passaro, Erasmo ^a   Baxter, Lew ^a   Engel Jr , Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Glucose metabolism; Mesial temporal lobe; Partial epilepsy; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0029838682     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00652.x     Document Type: Article

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