Internal structural changes in the hippocampus observed on 3-Tesla MRI in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 877-885

  Mitsueda Ono, Takahiro ^a,e   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Sawamoto, Nobukatsu ^a   Aso, Toshihiko ^a   Hanakawa, Takashi ^b   Kinoshita, Masako ^a,c   Matsumoto, Riki ^a   Mikuni, Nobuhiro ^d   Amano, Shigeru ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Takahashi, Ryosuke ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Neuroscience   (Japan)

^c UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 Tesla MRI; Granular cell layer; Hippocampus; Internal structural change; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; ATROPHY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GRANULAR CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84876207725     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.8852     Document Type: Article

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