Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 695-714

  Wieser, Heinz Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Definition; Electroclinical; Natural history; Neurophysiological; Neuropsychological; Pathogenesis; Pathologic features; Structural and functional imaging; Surgical outcome of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SCLEROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042685585     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.09004.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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