Surgical Treatment of Focal Epilepsy in Children; Results in 37 Patients

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 83-92

  Bizzi, Jorge W J ^a   Bruce, Derek A ^b,c   North, Richard ^c   Elterman, Roy ^b,c   Linder, Steven ^b,c   Porter Levy, Susan ^c   Ault, Cheryl ^c  

^a CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Epilepsy; Lesional; Non temporal; Surgery; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030725247     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121168     Document Type: Article

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