Dissociation of epileptic and inflammatory activity in Rasmussen Encephalitis

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 265-268

  Hauf, Martinus ^a,b   Wiest, Roland ^a   Nirkko, Arto ^b   Strozzi, Susi ^a   Federspiel, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Plastic   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arterial spin labeling; Epilepsy; Functional imaging; Independent component analysis; Inflammation; Rasmussen Encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPIKE WAVE; SPIN LABELING; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TIC;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN;

EID: 58849137829     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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