History of simple febrile seizures is associated with hippocampal abnormalities in adults

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1562-1569

  Auer, Tibor ^a   Barsi, Peter ^a   Bone, Beata ^a   Angyalosi, Anna ^a   Aradi, Mihaly ^a   Szalay, Csaba ^a   Horvath, Reka A ^a   Kovacs, Norbert ^a   Kotek, Gyula ^a   Fogarasi, Andras ^b   Komoly, Samuel ^a   Janszky, Imre ^c   Schwarcz, Attila ^a   Janszky, József ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b Bethesda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Hippocampal sclerosis; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; MRI volumetry; Simple febrile convulsions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 51249122590     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01679.x     Document Type: Article

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