Clinical and neuroimaging features of good and poor seizure control patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal atrophy

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 807-814

  Andrade Valença, Luciana Patrízia ^a   Valença, Marcelo Moraes ^b   Ribeiro, Luciana Torres ^a   Matos, André Luís Mendes ^a   Sales, Letícia Viana ^a   Velasco, Tonicarlo Rodrigues ^a   Santos, Antônio Carlos ^a   Leite, João Pereira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hippocampal sclerosis; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Pharmacoresistance; Seizure control; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTICONVULSANTS; ATROPHY; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0038305594     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.58002.x     Document Type: Article

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