Potentially misleading extratemporal lobe lesions in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 566-569

  Alsaadi, T M ^a,b   Bateman, L M ^c   Laxer, K D ^c   Barbaro, N M ^c   Austin, E J ^c   Garcia, P A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037624515     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.5.566     Document Type: Article

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