The selective amobarbital test in the anterior choroidal artery: Perfusion pattern assessed by intraarterial SPECT and prediction of postoperative verbal memory

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 445-455

  Vulliemoz, S ^a   Pegna, A J ^a   Annoni, J M ^a   Yilmaz, H ^a   Willi, J P ^a   Spinelli, L ^a   Landis, T ^a   Seeck, M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amobarbital; Anterior choroidal artery; Memory; Single photon emission computed tomography; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CHOROID ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 40649104322     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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