The nonmalformed hemisphere is secondarily impaired in young children with hemimegalencephaly: A pre- and postsurgery study with SPECT and EEG

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1375-1382

  Soufflet, Christine ^a   Bulteau, Christine ^b,c   Delalande, Olivier ^c   Pinton, Florence ^b,d   Jalin, Claude ^c   Plouin, Perrine ^a   Bahi Buisson, Nadia ^a   Dulac, Olivier ^a   Chiron, Catherine ^a,b,e,f  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c FONDATION OPHTALMOLOGIQUE ADOLPHE DE ROTHSCHILD   (France)

^d BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f HÔPITAL SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL   (France)

Author keywords

Child; EEC; Hemimegalencephaly; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEURORADIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WAITING LISTS; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 7944231339     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.66003.x     Document Type: Article

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