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Preoperative criteria for identifying eloquent brain. Intracarotid amytal for language and memory testing
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
The intracarotid Amytal procedure is a useful method for preoperative assessment of language dominance. It is also helpful for assuring that the contralateral hemisphere can sustain adequate memory function following temporal lobectomy. The methods of language and memory testing using intracarotid Amytal procedure are discussed.