The anterior and posterior selective temporal lobe amobarbital tests: Angiographic, clinical, electroencephalographic, PET, SPECT findings, and memory performance

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-97

  Wieser, Heinz Gregor ^a,b   Müller, Susanne ^a,b   Schiess, Regula ^a,b   Khan, Nadia ^a,b   Regard, Marianne ^a,b   Landis, Theodor ^a,b   Bjeljac, Mima ^a,b   Buck, Alfred ^a,b   Valavanis, Anton ^a,b   Yasargil, Gazi ^a,b   Yonekawa, Yasuhiro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEMORY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0342813071     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1997.0885     Document Type: Article

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