An Ischaemic Thalamic Lesion Extending to the Mammillothalamic Tract Associated with Absent Ipsilateral Mammillary Body in a Patient with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
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An Ischaemic Thalamic Lesion Extending to the Mammillothalamic Tract Associated with Absent Ipsilateral Mammillary Body in a Patient with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
We describe a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy with MR findings of an ischaemic thalamic lesion extending to the mammillothalamic tract and absent visualization of the mammillary body without signal changes in the hippocampus.
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