Surgical outcome in thirty-six patients with intractable epilepsy of childhood onset

Developmental Brain Dysfunction

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 292-298

  Moritake, Kouzo ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshifumi ^a   Hatta, Junko ^a   Nagai, Hidemasa ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

childhood epilepsy; magnetic resonance imaging; surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030453306     PISSN: 10195815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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