Development of hippocampal atrophy: A serial magnetic resonance imaging study in a patient who developed epilepsy after generalized status epilepticus

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1238-1241

  Wieshmann, Udo C ^a,b   Woermann, F G ^a,b   Lemieux, L ^a,b   Free, S L ^a,b   Bartlett, P A ^a,b   Smith, S J M ^a   Duncan, J S ^a,b   Stevens, J M ^c   Shorvon, S D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Hippocampus; Serial magnetic resonance imaging; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 0030729415     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01222.x     Document Type: Article

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