Dilemmas in the interpretation of diagnostic accuracy studies on presurgical workup for epilepsy surgery

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1294-1302

  Burch, Jane ^a   Marson, Anthony ^b   Beyer, Fiona ^a   Soares, Marta ^a   Hinde, Sebastian ^a   Wieshmann, Udo ^c   Woolacott, Nerys ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epileptogenic zone; Neuroimaging; PET; Seizure; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH DEFINITION ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBTRACTION ICTAL SPECT COREGISTERED WITH MRI; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865031397     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03534.x     Document Type: Review

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