Seizures during intracarotid methohexital and amobarbital testing

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-54

  Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a   Möddel, Gabriel ^a   Schuele, Stephan U ^a   Wyllie, Elaine ^a   Morris III, Harold H ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracarotid amobarbital test; Methohexital; Seizures; Wada test

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; METHOHEXITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEMORY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; WADA TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; BARBITURATES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; METHOHEXITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES;

EID: 33846483007     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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