Towards a clinico-pathological classification of granule cell dispersion in human mesial temporal lobe epilepsies

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 535-544

  Blümcke, Ingmar ^a   Kistner, Iris ^a   Clusmann, Hans ^b   Schramm, Johannes ^b   Becker, Albert J ^b   Elger, Christian E ^b   Bien, Christian G ^b   Merschhemke, Martin ^c   Meencke, Heinz Joachim ^c   Lehmann, Thomas ^d   Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Weigel, Daniel ^a   Buslei, Rolf ^a   Stefan, Hermann ^a   Pauli, Elisabeth ^a   Hildebrandt, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c Epilepsy Center Berlin Brandenburg   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELL COUNT; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64449087322     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-009-0512-5     Document Type: Article

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