Neuroimaging in investigation of patients with epilepsy

CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 623-642

  Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRACTOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84880166342     PISSN: 10802371     EISSN: 15386899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.CON.0000431379.29065.d3     Document Type: Review

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