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Ectopic Tissue

Known as: Choristoma, Heterotopic Tissue, Heterotopia 
Proliferation of normal tissue in an anatomic site in which this particular type of tissue is not normally present.
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
FAK Deficiency in Cells Contributing to the Basal Lamina Results in Cortical Abnormalities Resembling Congenital Muscular Dystrophies
Review
2002
Review
2002
Analysis and classification of cerebellar malformations.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Because of improved visualization of posterior fossa structures with MR imaging, cerebellar malformations… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Surgery for malformations of cortical development causing epilepsy.
  • S. Sisodiya
  • Brain : a journal of neurology
  • 2000
  • Corpus ID: 11774583
Malformations of cortical development (MCD) are responsible for many cases of refractory epilepsy in adults and children. The… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Disabled-1 acts downstream of Reelin in a signaling pathway that controls laminar organization in the mammalian brain.
Mutation of either reelin (Reln) or disabled-1 (Dab1) results in widespread abnormalities in laminar structures throughout the… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Targeted in vivo expression of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 halts hepatocyte cell-cycle progression, postnatal liver development and regeneration.
The CDK inhibitor p21 (WAF-1/CIP-1/SDI-1) has been implicated in DNA damage-induced p53-mediated G1 arrest, as well as in… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Gray matter heterotopias: MR characteristics and correlation with developmental and neurologic manifestations.
Magnetic resonance (MR) images and clinical records of 20 patients with gray matter heterotopias were retrospectively reviewed to… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Surgical treatment of limbic epilepsy associated with extrahippocampal lesions: the problem of dual pathology.
The authors present their review of 178 patients who underwent en bloc temporal lobectomies as surgical treatment for intractable… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
MR of neuronal migration anomalies.
Migration anomalies are congenital malformations caused by insults to migrating neuroblasts during the third to fifth gestational… 
Review
1987
Review
1987
Implications of local angiotensin production in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
The fate of heterotopic pancreatic tissue. A study of 212 cases.
A series of 212 cases of pancreatic heterotopia has been analyzed in order to ascertain the frequency of this congenital anomaly… 
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