De León O A, Blend M J, Jobe T H, Pontón M, Gaviria M
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612, USA.
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1997 Winter;9(1):99-101. doi: 10.1176/jnp.9.1.99.
The authors report 2 clinical cases that illustrate the difficulties with video-monitored EEG and the advantages of brain SPECT in differential diagnosis of true epileptic seizures and nonepileptic seizures. Injection of [99mTc]HMPAO at the time of the ictal event provides a means to obtain a SPECT image postictally for comparison with interictal examinations so that an epileptic or nonepileptic focus may be localized.
