Surgical pathology of epilepsy-associated non-neoplastic cerebral lesions: A brief introduction with special reference to hippocampal sclerosis and focal Cortical Dysplasia

Neuropathology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 442-458

  Miyata, Hajime ^a   Hori, Tomokatsu ^b,c   Vinters, Harry V ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Moriyama Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Focal cortical dysplasia; Hippocampal sclerosis; Histological classification; Surgical pathology

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENILE DEMENTIA; TDP 43 PROTEINOPATHY;

EPILEPSY; FOCAL CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; SURGICAL PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84881316677     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/neup.12028     Document Type: Article

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