MRI lesions masked by brain development: A case of infant-onset focal epilepsy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 377-381

  Furusho, Junichi ^a,b   Kato, Toshinori ^b,c   Tazaki, Izumi ^a,b   Iikura, Yoji ^b   Takita, Seiji ^b  

^a Showa General Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032215331     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(98)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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