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IS THERE SUCH A THING AS NONLESIONAL EPILEPSY?

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MRI-negative epilepsy: Protocols to optimize lesion detection

  1. Louis-Gilbert Vézina

Article first published online: 6 JUL 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03147.x

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Epilepsia

Epilepsia

Special Issue: Advanced Neuroimaging in New-Onset Epilepsy: Proceedings from the 1st Halifax Epilepsy Conference

Volume 52, Issue Supplement s4, pages 25–27, July 2011

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Vézina, L.-G. (2011), MRI-negative epilepsy: Protocols to optimize lesion detection. Epilepsia, 52: 25–27. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03147.x

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.

*Address correspondence to Louis-Gilbert Vézina, M.D., Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children’s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Av NW, Washington, DC 20010, U.S.A. E-mail: gvezina@cnmc.org

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