Gelastic Epilepsy - A Case Report with SPECT Studies

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 49, Issue MAY, 2001, Pages 581-583

  Khadilkar, S ^a   Menezes, K ^a   Lele, V ^b   Katrak, S ^a  

^a SIR J J GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (India)

^b JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; URINE INCONTINENCE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; GYRUS CINGULI; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0035347484     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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