Widespread cerebral structural changes in two patients with gelastic seizures and hypothalamic hamartomata

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1008-1010

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain measurement; Cerebral dysgenesis; Epilepsy surgery; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRAY MATTER; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; BRAIN; EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0030765032     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01483.x     Document Type: Article

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