Hippocampal damage in newly diagnosed focal epilepsy

Tuuli Salmenperä, Mervi Könönen, Nicholas Roberts, R. Vanninen, Asla Pitkänen, Reetta Kälviäinen

Neurology · 2005 · 77 citations · 29 references

Abstract

Hippocampal volume decreases occur in individual patients with newly diagnosed focal epilepsy during the first years of treatment. The data obtained suggest that hippocampal volumetry provides a surrogate marker of the epileptic process.

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