CAROTID ANGIOGRAPHY IN CONJUNCTION WITH AMYTAL TESTING OF EPILEPSY PATIENTS

Angiography is carried out as a basic part of the sodium amobarbital p rocedure in most institutions in order to predict the distribution of the amobarbital before the procedure itself is performed. This paper p resents details of cerebral circulation to provide a framework that wi ll help investigators who are not radiologists to interpret angiograph y results. The application of angiography specifically to the amobarbi tal procedure and the implications of different patterns of arterial f illing for interpretation of speech and memory test results are discus sed. (C) 1997 Academic Press.