Extent of initial injury determines language lateralization in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS)

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2249-2255

  Rathore, Chaturbhuj ^a   George, Annamma ^a   Kesavadas, Chandrasekharan ^a   Sankara Sarma, P ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Hippocampal sclerosis; Language; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Wada test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WADA TEST;

ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 70349322853     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02300.x     Document Type: Article

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