Self-injection ictal SPECT during partial seizures

Date
2000
Authors
Van Paesschen W.
Dupont P.
Van Heerden B.
Vanbilloen H.
Mesotten L.
Maes A.
Van Driel G.
Mortelmans L.
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Abstract
The authors compared ictal SPECT injection performed by medical personnel with self-injection ictal SPECT in six patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. Self-injection was safe and started faster Self- injection subtraction ictal SPECT coregistered to MRI (SISCOM) was localizing in three patients who had a complex partial seizure, but only one or three patients who had a simple partial seizure, which may limit its usefulness in clinical practice. The localizing information of self-injection was better in three patients, and obviated the need for depth-EEG studies in one patient.
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adult, article, clinical article, female, human, intermethod comparison, male, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, priority journal, self injection, single photon emission computer tomography, temporal lobe epilepsy, Adult, Brain Mapping, Cysteine, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Injections, Intravenous, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Organotechnetium Compounds, Radiopharmaceuticals, Self Administration, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
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Neurology
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