Extent of preoperative abnormalities and focus lateralization predict postoperative normalization of contralateral 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolite levels in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1766-1769

  Lantz, G ^a   Seeck, M ^a   Lazeyras, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospitals   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; ATROPHY; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PHOSPHOCREATINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33748779595     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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