Clinical features and EEG findings differentiating mesial from neocortical temporal lobe epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 189-195

  Pfänder, Mona ^a   Arnold, Stephan ^a   Henkel, Anja ^a   Weil, S ^a   Werhahn, Konrad J ^a   Eisensehr, Ilonka ^a   Winkler, Peter A ^a   Noachtar, Soheyl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interictal EEG; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Neocortical temporal lobe epilepsy; Seizure semiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HAND MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0036762570     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/j.1950-6945.2002.tb00492.x     Document Type: Article

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