The role of the Wada test in the surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy: An international perspective - Commentary on Baxendale et al.

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 720-722

  Helmstaedter, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; APHASIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LANGUAGE; LETTER; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WADA TEST;

EID: 43349088600     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01515_2.x     Document Type: Letter

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