Clinical course and prognosis of temporal lobe epilepsy: A survey of 666 patients

Brain

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1971, Pages 173-190

  Currie, S ^a   Heathfield, K W G ^a   Henson, R A ^a   Scott, D F ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSURGERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSURGERY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0014978606     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/94.1.173     Document Type: Article

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