Late-onset temporal lobe epilepsy with unilateral mesial temporal sclerosis and cognitive decline: A diagnostic dilemma

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 473-476

  Lozsadi, D A ^a   Chadwick, D W ^a   Larner, A J ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Diagnosis; Hippocampal atrophy; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 44749085214     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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