Epilepsy in patients with central nervous system tumors

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 424-428

  Villemure, Jean Guy ^a,c   De Tribolet, Nicolas ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CANCER SURGERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0030476396     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-199612000-00005     Document Type: Short Survey

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