Occipital lobe seizures as the major clinical manifestation of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome: Magnetic resonance imaging findings

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 295-299

  Bakshi, Rohit ^a,b   Bates, Vernice E ^a   Mechtler, Laszlo L ^a   Kinkel, Peter R ^a   Kinkel, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Mi Hard Fillmore Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertensive encephalopathy; Leukoencephalopathy; MRI; Occipital lobe; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, MALIGNANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031889097     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01376.x     Document Type: Article

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