Temporal and extended temporal resections for the treatment of intractable seizures in early childhood

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 169-178

  David Adelson, P ^a   Peacock, Warwick J ^a   Chugani, Harry T ^a   Comair, Youssef G ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Donald Shields, W ^a   Alan Shewmon, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Histopathology; Outcome; Pediatric; Positron emission tomography; Surgery; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEWBORN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOSURGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0026498828     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000120659     Document Type: Article

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