Correlation of SPECT with pathology and seizure outcome in children undergoing epilepsy surgery

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 676-680

  Hartley, L M ^a   Gordon, I ^b   Harkness, W ^a   Harding, B ^a   Neville, B G R ^b   Cross, J H ^b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PSYCHOSURGERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036772547     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162201002742     Document Type: Article

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