Selective middle cerebral artery Wada tests as a part of presurgical evaluation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsies

Epilepsia

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1217-1223

  Urbach, Horst ^a   Von Oertzen, Joachim ^a   Klemm, Edzard ^a   Koenig, Roy ^a   Linke, Detlef B ^a   Kurthen, Martin ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional hemispherectomy; Presurgical epilepsy evaluation; Sodium amobarbital; Wada test

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WADA TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOTOR CORTEX; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036797887     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.13302.x     Document Type: Article

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