Hippocampal sclerosis in a case of Alzheimer's disease-like dementia with late onset intractable epilepsy [9]

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-334

  Josephs, Keith A ^a   Tang Wai, D F ^a   Parisi, J E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Epilepsy; Hippocampal sclerosis

Indexed keywords

PHENYTOIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LETTER; ONSET AGE; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0037617868     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00595.x     Document Type: Letter

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