Focal functional deficits in temporal lobe epilepsy on PET scans and the intracarotid amobarbital procedure: Comparison of patients with unitemporal epilepsy with those requiring intracranial recordings

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 198-203

  Salanova, V ^a,b   Markand, O ^a   Worth, R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FDG PET; IAP; Outcome; Pathology; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035090004     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.17200.x     Document Type: Article

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