Subtemporal transparahippocampal amygdalohippocampectomy for surgical treatment of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1172-1176

  Park, T S ^a   Bourgeois, Blaise F D ^a   Silbergeld, Daniel L ^a   Dodson, W Edwin ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdalohippocampectomy; complex partial seizure; parahippocampal gyrus; subtemporal approach

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0029963765     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.6.1172     Document Type: Article

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