Gelastic seizures due to right temporal cortical dysplasia

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-141

  Dericioglu, Nese ^a,b   Cataltepe, Oguz ^a   Tezel, Gaye Guler ^a   Saygi, Serap ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Inonu mah   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Gelastic seizures; Surgery; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 20444495702     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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