Coexistence of ganglioglioma and cortical dysplasia in a patient with intractable epilepsy

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 752-756

  Maehara, Taketoshi ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a   Oda, Masaya ^a   Arai, Nobutaka ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy; Ganglioglioma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE;

EID: 0030692737     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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