MRI findings of occipital seizures in non-ketotic hyperglycemia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 367-368

  Goto, Hirofumi ^a   Kumagai, Takanori ^a   Momozaki, Nobuaki ^a  

^a Arita Kyouritsu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemianopia; Non ketotic hyperglycemia; Occipital seizure; Visual hallucination

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAY MATTER; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCINEMIA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; WHITE MATTER;

EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HALLUCINATIONS; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES;

EID: 79951660107     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4684     Document Type: Article

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