Acute symptomatic seizures and hippocampus damage: DWI and MRS findings

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1732-1735

  Parmar, Hemant ^a,b   Lim, Shih Hui ^a   Tan, Nigel C K ^a   Lim, C C Tchoyoson ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATROPHY; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 33745635907     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000218207.18707.f4     Document Type: Article

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