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An association between mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis and human leukocyte antigens.
Epilepsia - 1 Mar 2002
Ozkara Cigdem, Altintas Ayse, Yilmaz Erkan, Eskazan Esat, Erkol Gökhan, Ozyurt Emin, Erdogan Ergun, Kuday Cengiz
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) is one of the medically intractable epilepsies that may be remediable with surgery. Although the pathogenesis of HS still remains obscure, genetics may play a role as a predisposing factor, with the genetically controlled immune system as one of its aspects. Our aim in this study was to investigate whether there is any association between...
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