Blurring in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: Clinical, high-field imaging and ultrastructural study

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2337-2349

  Garbelli, Rita ^a   Milesi, Gloria ^a   Medici, Valentina ^a   Villani, Flavio ^a   Didato, Giuseppe ^a   Deleo, Francesco ^a   D'Incerti, Ludovico ^a   Morbin, Michela ^a   Mazzoleni, Giulia ^a   Giovagnoli, Anna Rita ^a   Parente, Annalisa ^a   Zucca, Ileana ^a   Mastropietro, Alfonso ^a,b   Spreafico, Roberto ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; epilepsy surgery; high field MRI; neuropathology; temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRING; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MARICULTURE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STAINING; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER LESION;

EID: 84864656611     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws149     Document Type: Article

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