Altered hemispheric symmetry found in left-sided mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE/HS) but not found in right-sided MTLE/HS

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-59

  Lu, Jingjing ^a   Li, Wenjing ^b   He, Huiguang ^b   Feng, Feng ^a   Jin, Zhengyu ^a   Wu, Liwen ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Brain asymmetry; Hippocampal sclerosis; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERED HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLEROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870339173     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2012.06.030     Document Type: Article

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