Postoperative MRI (IMAGE)

Neural Regeneration Research

Postoperative MRI

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This is a six month postoperative MRI of an 11-year-old male patient with temporal-parietal-occipital epilepsy: right posterior quadrant is completely disconnected, but isolated brain tissue has normal signals, indicating that the disconnected nerve tissue survived.

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