Correlation of MRI and histopathology in epileptogenic parietal and occipital lobe lesions

Seizure

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 608-614

  Urbach, Horst ^a   Binder, Devin ^a   von Lehe, Marec ^a   Podlogar, Martin ^a   Bien, Christian G ^a   Becker, Albert ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Kral, Thomas ^a   Clusmann, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; MRI; Occipital lobe epilepsy; Parietal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548133264     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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