Treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 317-328

  Ojemann, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Epilepsy with lesions; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Selection for surgery; Temporal resections

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; PSYCHOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031047193     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.48.1.317     Document Type: Review

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