Evidence-based practice: A reevaluation of the intracarotid amobarbital procedure (Wada Test)

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 841-845

  Baxendale, Sallie A ^a,b   Thompson, Pamela J ^a   Duncan, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEAD INJURY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; VOLUMETRY; WADA TEST;

AMOBARBITAL; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE;

EID: 45149114777     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.65.6.841     Document Type: Article

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