Insights into the sequence of structural consequences of convulsive status epilepticus: A longitudinal MRI study

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1941-1945

  Gong, Gaolang ^b   Shi, Feng ^b   Concha, Luis ^b   Beaulieu, Christian ^b   Gross, Donald W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Fornix; Hippocampus; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; LORAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FORNIX; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORNIX, BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; SCLEROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 55349086169     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01666.x     Document Type: Article

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