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Magnetic resonance imaging findings in Kenyans and South Africans with active convulsive epilepsy: an observational study
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Objective: Focal epilepsy is common in low- and middle-income countries. The frequency and nature of possible underlying structural brain abnormalities have, however, not been fully assessed.
Methods: We evaluated the possible structural causes of epilepsy in 331 people with epilepsy (240 from Kenya and 91 from South Africa) identified from community surveys of active convulsive epilepsy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were acquire...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/epi.17829
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Epilepsia More from this journal
- Volume:
- 65
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 165-176
- Publication date:
- 2023-12-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-11-10
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1528-1167
- ISSN:
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0013-9580
- Pmid:
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37964464
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English
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1569949
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pubs:1569949
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2024-01-08
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- Kariuki et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 The Authors. Epilepsia published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International League Against Epilepsy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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