Granular cell dispersion and bilamination: Two distinct histopathological patterns in epileptic hippocampi?

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 438-442

  Silva, Alexandre V ^a   Houzel, Jean Christophe ^b   Croaro, Ingrid ^a   Yacubian, Elza Márcia Targas ^a   Stavale, João Norberto ^a   Centeno, Ricardo Silva ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper Abrão ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hippocampal sclerosis; Immunocytochemistry; Morphometry; Refractory epilepsy; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC HIPPOCAMPI; GRANULAR CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REFRACTORY EPILEPSY; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL SIZE; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 38349131941     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2007.0135     Document Type: Article

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