Regional cerebral blood flow during temporal lobe seizures associated with ictal vomiting: An ictal SPECT study in two patients

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1085-1091

  Baumgartner, Christoph ^a,c   Olbrich, Achim ^a   Lindinger, Gerald ^a   Pataraia, Ekaterina ^a   Gröppel, Gudrun ^a   Bacher, Johanna ^a   Aull, Susanne ^a   Serles, Wolfgang ^a   Hoffmann, Martha ^a   Leutmezer, Fritz ^a   Czech, Thomas ^a   Prayer, Daniela ^a   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^b   Asenbaum, Susanne ^a   Podreka, Ivo ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b Laboratory for Oncogene Signaling   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clinical signs; Image coregistration; Presurgical epilepsy evaluation; SPECT; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOMITING;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VOMITING;

EID: 0032780523     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00823.x     Document Type: Article

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