Progressive hippocampal atrophy in chronic intractable temporal lobe epilepsy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 526-529

  O'Brien, Terence J ^a,b   So, Elson L ^a   Meyer, Fredrick B ^a   Parisi, Joseph E ^a   Jack, Clifford R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; ATROPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 0032892647     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(199904)45:4<526::AID-ANA17>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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