Temporal lobe epilepsy: Bilateral hippocampal metabolite changes revealed at proton MR spectroscopic imaging

Radiology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 809-817

  Ende, Gabriele R ^a,b   Laxer, Kenneth D ^b,c   Knowlton, Robert C ^b,c   Matson, Gerald B ^b   Schuft, Norbert ^c   Fein, George ^b   Weiner, Michael W ^c,d  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

abnormalities; atrophy; Brain; Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance (MR); MR; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0031050909     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.202.3.9051038     Document Type: Article

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