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MR Imaging Strategies in Epilepsy

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Recent Advances in Diagnostic Neuroradiology

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Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases. Epileptic seizures (ENGEL 1989) may occur as a result of intercurrent events such as fever, hypoglycemia, acute central nervous system infections and the like, and are then termed occasional seizures. When they recur spontaneously without known cause, they constitute epilepsy. “Epilepsy” is a chronic condition in which occasional seizures tend to occur repeatedly as a result of either structural brain damage or of an intrinsic functional propensity to have seizures.

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Achten, E. (2001). MR Imaging Strategies in Epilepsy. In: Demaerel, P. (eds) Recent Advances in Diagnostic Neuroradiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56662-2_14

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