Clinical differences in patients with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis and unitemporal or bitemporal epileptiform discharges

Seizure

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 550-554

  Janszky, József ^a,b   Rasonyi G ^a   Clemens, Z ^a   Schulz, R ^b   Hoppe, M ^b   Barsi, P ^a   Fogarasi, A ^c   Halasz P ^a   Ebner, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c Bethesda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Age at onset; Epilepsy duration; Hippocampal sclerosis; Mirror focus; Seizure frequency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0345099390     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(03)00069-4     Document Type: Article

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