Regional cerebral hyperperfusion with ictal dystonic posturing: Ictal-interictal SPECT subtraction

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 686-689

  Joo, Eun Yeon ^a   Hong, Seung Bong ^a   Lee, Eun Kyung ^a   Tae, Woo Suk ^a   Kim, Jee Hyun ^a   Seo, Dae Won ^a   Hong, Seung Chyul ^a   Kim, Seunghwan ^c   Kim, Myoung Hee ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Caudate nucleus; Dystonia; Perfusion; Putamen; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS;

BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DYSTONIA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUTAMEN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 3042681599     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.35003.x     Document Type: Article

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