Surgical pathology of temporal lobe epilepsy. Experience with 216 cases

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 499-506

  Wolf, Helmut K ^a   Campos, Manuel G ^a   Zentner, Josef ^a   Hufnagel, Andreas ^b   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Elger, Christian E ^b   Wiestler, Otmar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amnion s horn sclerosis; Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor; Ganglioglioma; Hamartia; Hamartoma; Hippocampus; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TERATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; XANTHOMATOSIS;

EID: 0027237306     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199309000-00008     Document Type: Article

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