Non-invasive investigations successfully select patients for temporal lobe surgery

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 327-333

  Kilpatrick, Christine ^a,b   Cook, Mark ^a   Kaye, Andrew ^b   Murphy, Michael ^c   Matkovic, Zelko ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

MRI; Non invasive investigations; Temporal lobe surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCALP; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0030864908     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.63.3.327     Document Type: Article

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