The perfusion defect seen with SPECT in West syndrome is not correlated with seizure prognosis or developmental outcome

Brain and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-23

  Haginoya, Kazuhiro ^a   Kon, Kimiya ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Soichiro ^a   Kato, Rie ^a   Munakata, Mitsutoshi ^a   Yagi, Tsuneo ^a   Takayanagi, Masaru ^a   Yoshihara, Yasushi ^a   Nagai, Mayumi ^a   Yamazaki, Tetsuro ^a   Maruoka, Shin ^a   Iinuma, Kazuie ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Infantile spasms; SPECT; Tonic spasms; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOTROPIN; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IOFETAMINE; IOFETAMINE I 131; NITRAZEPAM; PROTIRELIN; PYRIDOXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE COURSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WEST SYNDROME;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033972371     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(99)00081-9     Document Type: Article

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