Ictogenesis and symptomatogenesis of gelastic seizures in hypothalamic hamartomas: An ictal SPECT study

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2270-2279

  Kameyama, Shigeki ^a   Masuda, Hiroshi ^a   Murakami, Hiroatsu ^a  

^a NISHI NIIGATA CHUO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epileptic encephalopathy; Facial expression; Laughter; Mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus; Stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS; ICTOGENESIS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; PONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOFREQUENCY THERMOCOAGULATION; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; SYMPTOMATOGENESIS; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THERMOCOAGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTEINE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOSURGERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349238204     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02739.x     Document Type: Article

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