The role of the intracarotid amobarbital procedure in predicting verbal memory decline after temporal lobe resection

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 546-552

  Baxendale, Sallie ^a,b   Thompson, Pamela ^a   Harkness, William ^a   Duncan, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IAP; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Wada test

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LEARNING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY; WADA TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMOBARBITAL; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33847621250     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00940.x     Document Type: Article

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