Brain single photon emission computed tomography imaging in Landau-Kleffner syndrome

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 60-67

  Guerreiro, M M ^a,c   Camargo, E E ^a   Kato, M ^a   Menezes Netto, J R ^b   Silva, E A ^a   Scotoni, A E ^a   Silveira, D C ^a   Guerreiro, C A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Corticosteroids; Electroencephalography; Landau Kleffner syndrome; Single photon emission computed tomography imaging; Verbal auditory agnosia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIMES; PREDNISONE; SLEEP; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030033917     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00513.x     Document Type: Article

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