Postnatal evolution of cortical malformation in the "non-affected" hemisphere of hemimegalencephaly

Brain and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 412-416

  Kometani, Hiroshi ^a   Sugai, Kenji ^a   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Nakagawa, Eiji ^a   Sakuma, Hiroshi ^a   Komaki, Hirofumi ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Adachi, Yuko ^a   Kaneko, Yuu ^a   Otsuki, Taisuke ^a   Hamano, Shin ichiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical malformation; Hemimegalencephaly; Hemispherectomy; Intractable epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; JAPANESE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77951025195     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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