Neurosarcoidosis presenting with simple partial seizures and solitary enhancing mass: Case reports and review of the literature

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 623-630

  Sponsler, Jeffrey L ^a   Werz, Mary Ann ^b   Maciunas, Robert ^b   Cohen, Mark ^b  

^a Valley Neuroscience Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Brain mass lesion; Hippocampus; Neurosarcoidosis; Positron emission tomography; Sarcoidosis; Seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUNG HILUS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGITIS; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS; STEROIDS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 18744411568     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.02.016     Document Type: Article

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