JLE

Epileptic Disorders

MENU

Temporoporal metabolic abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsies Volume 4, supplément 1, Supplement 1, September 2002

Auteur
Nuclear Medicine Dpt. SHFJ, CEA, 4, place du Général-Leclerc, 91401 Orsay, France.
  • Page(s) : 41-50
  • Année de parution : 2002

Since the ground-breaking work at UCLA [1], Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has made a great contribution to the pre-surgical assessment of patients with partial, drug-refractory epilepsy, originating in the temporal lobe or elsewhere [2]. Over the last twenty years, a large number of studies have characterized changes in interictal cerebral metabolic patterns using 18F-deoxyglucose-PET (FDG-PET) thereby contributing to our understanding [...]