A new clinico-pathological classification system for mesial temporal sclerosis

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-244

  Blümcke, Ingmar ^a   Pauli, Elisabeth ^a   Clusmann, Hans ^b   Schramm, Johannes ^b   Becker, Albert ^b   Elger, Christian ^b   Merschhemke, Martin ^c   Meencke, Heinz Joachim ^c   Lehmann, Thomas ^d   Von Deimling, Andreas ^d   Scheiwe, Christian ^e   Zentner, Josef ^e   Volk, Benedikt ^e   Romstöck, Johann ^a   Stefan, Hermann ^a   Hildebrandt, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c Evangelisches Krankhs Konigin E H   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELL DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947418823     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-006-0187-0     Document Type: Article

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