Regional cerebral blood flow and language dominance: SPECT during intracarotid amobarbital testing

Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 943-950

  McMackin, D ^a,c   Jones Gotman, M ^a   Dubeau, F ^a   Gotman, J ^a   Lukban, A ^b   Dean, G ^a   Evans, A ^b   Lisbona, R ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031947445     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.50.4.943     Document Type: Article

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