Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Unilateral Amygdala Enlargement: Morphometric MR Analysis with Clinical and Pathological Study

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 175-183

  Kimura, Yukio ^a,c   Sato, Noriko ^a   Saito, Yuko ^a   Ito, Kimiteru ^a   Kamiya, Kouhei ^a   Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Masako ^a   Maikusa, Norihide ^b   Matsuda, Hiroshi ^b   Sugimoto, Hideharu ^c  

^a National Center Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala enlargement; Focal cortical dysplasia; FreeSurfer; Temporal pole; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA ENLARGEMENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT; AMYGDALA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924597011     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon.12106     Document Type: Article

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