Interictal SPECT in the presurgical evaluation in epileptic patients with normal MRI or bilateral mesial temporal sclerosis

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 67, Issue 3 A, 2009, Pages 639-642

  Marques, Lucia Helena Neves ^a,b,c   Ferraz Filho, José R L ^a,b   Lins Filho, Mário L M ^a,b   Maciel, Marina G ^a   Yoshitake, Rafael ^a   Filetti, Sarah V ^a  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE BASE   (Brazil)

^c Department of Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 69749104743     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2009000400012     Document Type: Article

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