Effective temporal lobectomy in childhood without invasive EEG

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 164-167

  Blume, Warren T ^a   Girvin, John P ^a   McLachlan, Richard S ^a   Gilmore, Barbara E ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Complex partial seizures; Epilepsy; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031056962     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01092.x     Document Type: Article

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