Benign mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 237-240

  Labate, Angelo ^a   Gambardella, Antonio ^b   Andermann, Eva ^c   Aguglia, Umberto ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^d   Berkovic, Samuel F ^c,e   Andermann, Frederick ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 79953768916     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.212     Document Type: Review

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