Selective amobarbital test for the determination of language function in patients with epilepsy with frontal and posterior temporal brain lesions

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 389-398

  Hajek, Marketa ^a,b   Valavanis, Anton ^b   Yonekawa, Yasuhiro ^b   Schiess, Regula ^a   Buck, Alfred ^b   Wieser, Heinz Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

99mTc HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography; Language representation; Presurgical epilepsy evaluation; Selective amobarbital language test; Selective amobarbital memory test

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031897166     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01391.x     Document Type: Article

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