Diagnostic surgical neuropathology of intractable epilepsy

Neuropathology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 594-600

  Arai, Nobutaka ^a,b,c   Takahashi, Tatsuya ^a   Komori, Takashi ^a,b,c   Yagishita, Akira ^b,c   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^b,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Inst Technol   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy; Hippocampal sclerosis; Microdysgenesis; Surgical pathology

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TERATOMA; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL;

EID: 35748939675     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2007.00811.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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