Coeliac disease, unilateral occipital calcifications, and drug-resistant epilepsy: Successful lesionectomy

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 202-204

  Nakken, Karl O ^a   Roste G K ^b   Hauglie Hanssen, E ^b  

^a National Center for Epilepsy   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coeliac disease; Epilepsy; Occipital calcifications; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FOLLOW UP; GLUTEN FREE DIET; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LESIONECTOMY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CELIAC DISEASE; DECALCIFICATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; GLUTEN; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 14044265622     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2005.00337.x     Document Type: Article

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