How common is brain atrophy in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy?

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1774-1779

  Bonilha, Leonardo ^a   Elm, Jordan J ^a   Edwards, Jonathan C ^a   Morgan, Paul S ^a   Hicks, Christian ^a   Lozar, Carl ^a   Rumboldt, Zoran ^a   Roberts, Donna R ^a   Rorden, Chris ^b   Eckert, Mark A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; MRI; Network; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 77956321532     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02576.x     Document Type: Article

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