Subclinical seizures as a pitfall in 18F-FDG PET imaging of temporal lobe epilepsy

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 819-821

  Tafti, Bashir Akhavan ^a   Mandelkern, Mark ^a   Berenji, Gholam Reza ^a  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; MRI; PET; Subclinical seizure

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; SUBCLINICAL SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WHOLE BODY PET; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84941753542     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000444     Document Type: Article

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