Assessment of the benzodiazepine receptors with SPECT in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Schweizer Archiv fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-100

  Wielepp, J P ^a   Donati, F ^a   Weder, B ^a   Schroth, G ^a   Mariani, L ^a   Mathis, J ^a   Vonesch, T ^a   Noelpp, U ^a   Kinser, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CBF SPECT; Computerized Brain Atlas (CBA); Focus localization; Iomazenil SPECT; Postoperative outcome; Therapy refractory epilepsy

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; IOMAZENIL; IOMAZENIL I 123; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032943544     PISSN: 02587661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/sanp.1999.01085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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