Amygdala enlargement in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy without hippocampal sclerosis

Purpose: Patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) without MRI abnormalities (MTLE-NL) represent a challenge for definition of underlying pathology and for presurgical evaluation. In a recent study we observed significant amygdala enlargement in 14% of MTLE patients with MRI signs of HS. Ar...

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Main Authors: Ana Carolina Coan, Marcia Elisabete eMorita, Brunno Machado Campos, Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Fernando eCendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2013.00166/full