Evidence of neuronal injury outside the medial temporal lobe in temporal lobe epilepsy: N-acetylaspartate concentration reductions detected with multisection proton MR spectroscopic imaging - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 195-202

  Vermathen, Peter ^a   Laxer, Kenneth D ^b   Schuff, Norbert ^b   Matson, Gerald B ^b   Weiner, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain, metabolism; Brain, MR; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance (MR), spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLISM; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOLINE; CREATINE KINASE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037259233     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2261011668     Document Type: Article

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