Neurosurgical treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy on the basis of a fusion of MRI and SPECT images-case report

Polish Journal of Radiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 51-54

  Jurkiewicz, Elzbieta ^a   Bekiesińska Figatowska, Monika ^b   Miśko, Jolanta ^c   Kamińska, Anna ^a   Kwiatkowski, Stanisław ^d   Terczyńska, Iwona ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

^c Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine   (Poland)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain; Drug resistant epilepsy; Fusion of the images; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMISSION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957342341     PISSN: 1733134X     EISSN: 18990967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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