Temporal lobe hypometabolism ipsilateral to a hypothalamic mass: Relationship to gelastic seizures

Clinical Positron Imaging (Netherlands)

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 75-77

  Meyer, Michael Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

18F FDG; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma; PET

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142280494     PISSN: 10950397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-0397(00)00043-1     Document Type: Article

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