Medial temporal lobe atrophy in patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1627-1630

  Bonilha, L ^a   Kobayashi, E ^a   Rorden, C ^b   Cendes, F ^a   Li, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPOROPOLAR CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0346121322     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.12.1627     Document Type: Article

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