Significance of mesial temporal atrophy in relation to intracranial ictal and interictal stereo EEG abnormalities

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1317-1326

  Cendes, F ^a   Dubeau, F ^a   Andermann, F ^a   Quesney, L F ^a   Gambardella, A ^a   Jones Gotman, M ^a   Bizzi, J ^a   Olivier, A ^a   Gotman, J ^a   Arnold, D L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Hippocampus; Mesial temporal sclerosis; MRI volumetric measurements; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPIKE; STEREOELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 9544245932     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.4.1317     Document Type: Article

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