Patients with extratemporal lobe epilepsy do not differ from healthy subjects with respect to subcortical volumes

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 588-592

  Gartner B ^b   Seeck, M ^a,b   Michel, C M ^c   Delavelle, J ^c   Lazeyras, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUTAMEN; REFERENCE VALUES; THALAMUS;

EID: 12144287907     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018721     Document Type: Article

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