MRI and EEG as long-Term seizure outcome predictors in familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 2349-2354

  Morita, Marcia E ^a   Yasuda, Clarissa Lin ^a   Betting, Luiz E ^a   Pacagnella, Denise ^a   Conz, Livia ^a   Barbosa, Patricia Horn ^a   Maurer Morelli, Claudia Vianna ^b   Costa, Andre Luiz F ^a   Kobayashi, Eliane ^a,c   Lopes Cendes, Iscia ^b   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a Medical Sciences Faculty   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILIAL MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; INTERICTAL EPILEPTIFORM DISCHARGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 84871268677     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318278b63f     Document Type: Article

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