Bilateral hippocampal volume loss in patients with a history of encephalitis or meningitis

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 400-405

  Free, S L ^a,c   Li, L M ^a   Fish, D R ^a   Shorvon, S D ^a   Stevens, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c Epilepsy Research Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Normalization; Volumetrics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0029962368     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00578.x     Document Type: Article

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