The relative localizing value of interictal and immediate postictal SPECT in seizures of temporal lobe origin

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2021-2025

  Oommen, Kalarickal J ^a   Saba, Sadia ^a   Oommen, Joseph A ^a   Francel, Paul C ^a   Arnold, Charles D ^a   Wilson, Don A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hyperperfusion; Hypoperfusion; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 16644391980     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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