The hazards of lack of co-registration of ictal brain SPECT with MRI: A case report of sinusitis mimicking a brainstem seizure focus

BMC Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Butler, Tracy ^a   Hirsch, Lawrence J ^b   Claassen, Jan ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12344328801     PISSN: 14712385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2385-4-2     Document Type: Article

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