Wada difference a day makes: Interpretive cautions regarding same-day injections

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1577-1582

  Grote, C L ^a   Wierenga, C ^a   Smith, M C ^a   Kanner, A M ^a   Bergen, D C ^a   Geremia, G ^a   Greenlee, W ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRACAROTID AMOBARBITAL TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0033549070     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.8.1577     Document Type: Article

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