SPECT-negative SIRPIDs argues against treatment as seizures

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 493-496

  Zeiler, Steven R ^a   Turtzo, Lisa C ^b   Kaplan, Peter W ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Periodic discharges; SIRPIDs; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; LORAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STIMULUS INDUCED RHYTHMIC PERIODIC OR ICTAL DISCHARGE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 80053594903     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: 15371603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0b013e318231c00a     Document Type: Article

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