Epilepsy Research
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 119-126 , June 1996

Relationship of hippocampal sclerosis to duration and age of onset of epilepsy, and childhood febrile seizures in temporal lobectomy patients

  • Keith G. Davies

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 930 Madison Avenue, Suite 700, Memphis, TN 38103, USA. Tel.: +1 (901) 522 2660; fax: +1 (901) 522 2665.
    • Epi-Care Center, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Bruce P. Hermann

      Affiliations

    • Epi-Care Center, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • ,
  • F.Curtis Dohan Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Kevin T. Foley

      Affiliations

    • Epi-Care Center, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Semmes-Murphey Clinic, Memphis, TN, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Andrew J. Bush

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, USA
    • ,
  • Allen R. Wyler

      Affiliations

    • Epilepsy Center, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Received 20 June 1995 ,Revised 15 December 1995 ,Accepted 8 January 1996.

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Epilepsy Research
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