Epilepsy imaging study guideline criteria: Commentary on diagnostic testing study guidelines and practice parameters

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1750-1756

  Gaillard, William D ^a,b   Cross, J Helen ^c   Duncan, John S ^d   Stefan, Hermann ^e   Theodore, William H ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Guidelines; Imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 80052543482     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03155.x     Document Type: Article

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