Clinical use of ictal SPECT in secondarily generalized tonicclonic seizures

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2102-2113

  Varghese, G I ^a   Purcaro, M J ^a   Motelow, J E ^a   Enev, M ^a   McNally, K A ^a   Levin, A R ^a   Hirsch, L J ^b   Tikofsky, R ^b   Paige, A L ^c   Zubal, I G ^a   Spencer, S S ^a   Blumenfeld, H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Epilepsy; Grand mal; Nuclear medicine; Surgery

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249170538     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp027     Document Type: Article

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