Cases of temporal lobe epilepsy following mild encephalitis/meningitis or suspicion of these diseases

Journal of Epilepsy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 177-181

  Uesugi, Hideji ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b   Maehara, Taketoshi ^b   Arai, Nobutaka ^c   Kaito, Nobuyoshi ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^a   Nakayama, Hiroshi ^b   Onuma, Teiichi ^a  

^a National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CNS infection; Encephalitis; Etiology; Imaging; Pathology; Temporal lobe Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0032127130     PISSN: 08966974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6974(98)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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