3.0 T MRI of 2000 consecutive patients with localisation-related epilepsy

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1017, 2012, Pages 1236-1242

  Craven, Ian ^a   Griffiths, P D ^a   Bhattacharyya, D ^a   Grunewald, R A ^a   Hodgson, T ^a   Connolly, D J A ^a   Coley, S C ^a   Batty, R ^a   Romanowski, C A J ^a   Hoggard, N ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; HAMARTOMA; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGIOMA; MICROGYRIA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; SCHIZENCEPHALY; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SUBCORTICAL HETEROTOPIA; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866077504     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/30177037     Document Type: Article

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