Eclampsia, hippocampal sclerosis, and temporal lobe epilepsy: Accident or association?

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1352-1356

  Lawn, N ^a   Laich, E ^a   Ho, S ^a   Martin, R ^a   Faught, E ^a   Knowlton, R ^a   Morawetz, R ^a   Kuzniecky, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECLAMPSIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 1942441689     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000120544.64972.10     Document Type: Review

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