Usefulness of 123I-iomazenil single-photon emission computed tomography in discriminating between mesial and lateral temporal lobe epilepsy in patients in whom magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates normal findings

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 352-363

  Umeoka, Shuichi ^a   Matsuda, Kazumi ^a   Baba, Koichi ^a   Usui, Naotaka ^a   Tottori, Takayasu ^a   Terada, Kiyohito ^a   Usui, Keiko ^a   Nakamura, Fumihiro ^a   Inoue, Yushi ^a   Fujiwara, Tateki ^a   Mihara, Tadahiro ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

123I iomazenil single photon emission computed tomography; Benzodiazepine; Lateral temporal lobe epilepsy; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

IOMAZENIL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUMAZENIL; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATERAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 34547702663     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS-07/08/0352     Document Type: Article

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