Surgical and postmortem pathology studies: Contribution for the investigation of temporal lobe epilepsy;Patologia cirúrgica e post mortem: Contribuição para a investigação da epilepsia do lobo temporal

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 945-952

  Caboclo, Luís Otávio Sales Ferreira ^a   Neves, Rafael Scarpa ^a   Jardim, Anaclara Prada ^a   Hamad, Ana Paula Andrade ^a   Centeno, Ricardo Silva ^a   Lancellotti, Carmen Lucia Penteado ^b   Scorza, Carlo Alessandra ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper Abrão ^a   Yacubian, Elza Márcia Targas ^a   Sakamoto, Américo Ceiki ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Clinical Microbiology Section   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Pathology; Surgical; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

AUTOPSY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 84872284850     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2012001200009     Document Type: Review

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