The Value of Interictal Brain SPECT in Epilepsy Patients Without Mesial-Temporal Sclerosis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 716-720

  Siegel, Alan ^a   Lewis, Petra ^a   Siegel, Adrian M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Interictal; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCLEROSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

CYSTEINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM COMPLEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M BICISATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036776844     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200210000-00007     Document Type: Article

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