Cerebral damage in epilepsy: A population-based longitudinal quantitative MRI study

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1482-1494

  Liu, Rebecca S N ^a,b   Lemieux, Louis ^a,b   Bell, Gail S ^a,b,c   Sisodiya, Sanjay M ^a,b   Bartlett, Philippa A ^a,b   Shorvon, Simon D ^a   Sander, Josemir W A S ^a,b,c   Duncan, John S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community based; Epilepsy; Longitudinal; Seizures; Volumetric imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPSY; EXTRATEMPORAL PARTIAL EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 26944489296     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.51603.x     Document Type: Article

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