Bilateral limbic diffusion abnormalities in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 188-196

  Concha, Luis ^a   Beaulieu, Christian ^a   Gross, Donald W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION;

EID: 13144281710     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20334     Document Type: Article

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