Health-related quality of life and seizure control in temporal lobe epilepsy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 482-489

  McLachlan, Richard S ^a,b   Rose, Kristopher J ^a   Derry, Paul A ^a   Bonnar, Casey ^a   Blume, Warren T ^a   Girvin, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030887620     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410410411     Document Type: Article

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