MR imaging of epilepsy: Strategies for successful interpretation

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-372

  Vattipally, Venkatramana R ^a   Bronen, Richard A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GADOLINIUM; HEMOSIDERIN;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ASTROCYTOMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PARASITOSIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCLEROSIS; STROKE; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TERATOMA; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 8444246733     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2004.04.002     Document Type: Review

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