Local cortical hypoperfusion imaged with CT perfusion during postictal Todd's paresis

Neuroradiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 397-401

  Mathews, Marlon S ^a,c   Smith, Wade S ^b   Wintermark, Max ^b   Dillon, William P ^b   Binder, Devin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Ischemia; Perfusion; Stroke; Todd's paralysis

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPLEGIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTICTAL TODD PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42549146090     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-008-0362-1     Document Type: Article

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