Epilepsy: Repeat MRI in patients with chronic epilepsy

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 545-546

  Seeck, Margitta ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84899773040     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2013.194     Document Type: Article

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