Individual white matter fractional anisotropy analysis on patients with MRI negative partial epilepsy

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-139

  Duning, Thomas ^a   Kellinghaus, Christoph ^a,b   Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^a   Schiffbauer, Hagen ^a   Keller, Simon ^c   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^a   Deppe, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Andreas Bannowsky Ltd   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 76549123881     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.160820     Document Type: Article

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