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Computed Tomography in the Differential Diagnosis of Late-Onset Epilepsy

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Cranial Computerized Tomography

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CT in the diagnosis of secondary epilepsy is useful in the identification of brain tumors, focal or diffuse atrophy (BOGDANOFF etal.,1975; GALL etal, 1976; GASTAUT etal., 1976), and in systematic differentiation of the rather large number of cryptogenic epilepsies.

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  1. K. F. Masuhr
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  2. Th. Grumme
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  1. Oberarzt an der Neurochirurgischen Klinik im Klinikum Großhadern, der Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, München, Germany

    Wolfgang Lanksch  & Ekkehard Kazner  & 

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Masuhr, K.F., Grumme, T., Janz, D. (1976). Computed Tomography in the Differential Diagnosis of Late-Onset Epilepsy. In: Lanksch, W., Kazner, E. (eds) Cranial Computerized Tomography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66494-6_29

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