Predicting posttraumatic epilepsy with MRI: Prospective longitudinal morphologic study in adults

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1472-1481

  Messori, Anna ^a   Polonara, Gabriele ^a   Carle, Flavia ^b   Gesuita, Rosaria ^b   Salvolini, Ugo ^a,c  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Gliosis; Hemosiderin; Posttraumatic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

HEMOSIDERIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN SURGERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMOSIDEROSIS; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOSIS; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 26944456010     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.34004.x     Document Type: Article

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