The personal factor in the maturation of epileptogenic brain scars: review and hypothesis.

AUTOR(ES)

Potter, J M

RESUMO

Does a metabolic factor, variable but personal to the individual, determine the interval between a brain injury and the onset of late traumatic epilepsy? It could account for the unpredictability of this maturation period, and for the fact that only about 50% of brain scars give rise to epilepsy at all.

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