Is epilepsy a curable neurodegenerative disease?
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Case report Curable focal epilepsy
This gentleman presented, aged 36, with numbness on the left side of his face, which subsided over 10 days. Four months later, he developed numbness with pins and needles affecting his left arm followed shortly affecting his right arm and then both legs within a month. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain showed two white matter lesions involving the corpus callosum with no other abnormalitie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww202