Current concepts: Surgery for seizures

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 647-652

  Engel Jr , Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030030960     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/nejm199603073341008     Document Type: Review

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