The base rate of Wada test failure

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 630-633

  Kemp, Steven ^a   Wilkinson, Katherine ^a   Caswell, Helen ^b   Reynders, Hazel ^c   Baker, Gus ^d  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Royal Hallamshire   (United Kingdom)

^d WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Wada test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCREENING TEST; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY; WADA TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54049146612     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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