Surgery for amygdala enlargement with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: Pathological findings and seizure outcome

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 887-894

  Minami, Noriaki ^a,b,d   Morino, Michiharu ^a   Uda, Takehiro ^a   Komori, Takashi ^a   Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a   Arai, Nobutaka ^c   Kohmura, Eiji ^b   Nakano, Imaharu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA ENLARGEMENT; AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AMYGDALOTOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL TRANSECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HYPERTROPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940664897     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-308383     Document Type: Article

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