Outcome following surgery in patients with bitemporal interictal epileptiform patterns

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1037-1040

  Holmes, M D ^a,b   Dodrill, C B ^a   Ojemann, G A ^a   Wilensky, A J ^a   Ojemann, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030987171     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.4.1037     Document Type: Article

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