The imaging of epilepsy

Seminars in Ultrasound CT and MRI

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-250

  Stears, John C ^a   Spitz, Mark C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0029885944     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-2171(96)90037-2     Document Type: Article

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