Periventricular nodular heterotopia: Epileptogenic findings

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1173-1182

  Battaglia, Giorgio ^a   Granata, Tiziana ^a   Farina, Laura ^a   D'Incerti, Ludovico ^a   Franceschetti, Silvana ^a   Avanzini, Giuliano ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral migrational and organizational disorders; Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuronal migration; Subependymal heterotopia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHORISTOMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030829946     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01213.x     Document Type: Article

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