Ictal SPECT in Sturge-Weber syndrome

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 240-243

  Bilgin, Özgür ^a   Vollmar, Christian ^a   Peraud, Aurelia ^a   la Fougere, Christian ^a   Beleza, Pedro ^a   Noachtar, Soheyl ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional hemispherectomy; Ictal SPECT; Sturge Weber syndrome

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARESIS; SEIZURES; STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 38549128826     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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