Tuberous Sclerosis Complex With a Single Brain Lesion on MRI Mimicking Focal Cortical Dysplasia

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 343-347

  Hirfanoglu, Tugba ^a   Gupta, Ajay ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TUBERIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SKULL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 77950615456     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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