Endovascular ablation of a temporal lobe epileptogenic focus - A complication of Wada testing

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 189-191

  Ammerman, Joshua M ^a,b   Caputy, A J ^a   Potolicchio, S J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endovascular; Epilepsy; Seizure; Stroke; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

METHOHEXITAL;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR ABLATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; MEMORY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; WADA TEST;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPEECH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23844501022     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2005.00459.x     Document Type: Review

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