Do prolonged febrile seizures produce medial temporal sclerosis? Hypotheses, MRI evidence and unanswered questions

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2002, Pages 263-278

  Lewis, Darrell V ^a   Barboriak, Daniel P ^a   MacFall, James R ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a   Mitchell, Teresa V ^a   VanLandingham, Kevan E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDIAL TEMPORAL SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0036458349     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)35025-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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