| Literature DB >> 10881265 |
L Ferini-Strambi1, M Bozzali, M Cercignani, A Oldani, M Zucconi, M Filippi.
Abstract
The authors assessed the presence of brain abnormalities in 21 patients with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE), using magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) and mean diffusivity (;D) histograms. Compared with healthy volunteers and patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy, patients with NFLE had lower MTR (p = 0.002 and 0.01) and;D (p = 0.03 and 0.04) histogram peak heights. Subtle and widespread abnormalities related to intra- and extracellular distribution and motion of water are detectable in the brains of patients with NFLE.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10881265 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.12.2331
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910