Brain distortions in patients with primarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 364-370

  Savic, Ivanka ^a,b   Seitz, Rudiger J ^c   Pauli, Stefan ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Computerized brain atlas; Primarily generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

EID: 0031921288     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01388.x     Document Type: Article

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