Clinical application of neuroimaging in epilepsy

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 466-470

  Wieshmann, U C ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037380929     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.4.466     Document Type: Article

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