Unilateral intracarotid amobarbital procedure for language lateralization

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1764-1772

  Wellmer, Jörg ^a   Fernández, Guillen ^a,b   Linke, Detlef B ^a   Urbach, Horst ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Kurthen, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atypical language dominance; Disproportionate bilaterality; Functional MRI; Hemispheric language capacity; Intracarotid amobarbital procedure; Language lateralization

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33644630253     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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