Diffusion tensor tractography of the Meyer loop in cases of temporal lobe resection for temporal lobe epilepsy: Correlation between postsurgical visual field defect and anterior limit of Meyer loop on tractography

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1329-1334

  Taoka, Toshiaki ^a   Sakamoto, M ^a   Nakagawa, H ^a   Nakase, H ^a   Iwasaki, S ^a   Takayama, K ^a   Taoka, K ^b   Hoshida, T ^a   Sakaki, T ^a   Kichikawa, K ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kakogawa Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 49749144118     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1101     Document Type: Article

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