Hippocampal damage caused by seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy [4]

Lancet

Volumn 351, Issue 9095, 1998, Pages 35-

  Salmenperä, Tuuli ^b   Kälviäinen, Reetta ^b   Partanen, Kaarina ^b   Pitkänen, Asla ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0032477516     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)78092-2     Document Type: Article

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