Transient abnormalities associated with status epilepticus on diffusion-weighted MR imaging

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 333-338

  Kawahara, Ichiro ^a,b   Tsutsumi, Keisuke ^a   Hirose, Makoto ^a   Matsuo, Yoshitaka ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroaki ^a  

^a Nagasaki Rousai Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytotoxic and vasogenic edema; Diffusion weighted MR imaging; Reversible; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 3042795883     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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