Intraoperative electrocorticography in children with medically intractable epilepsy

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 440-446

  Tanaka, Tatsuya ^a   Hashizume, Kiyotaka ^a   Kunimoto, Masayuki ^a   Yonemasu, Yukichi ^a   Chiba, Shigeru ^a   Oki, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

children; electrocorticography; electroencephalography; epilepsy surgery; long term monitoring; neuroleptanalgesia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 0030017296     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.440     Document Type: Article

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