Corpus callosotomy for medically intractable seizures

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 260-267

  Sorenson, Jeffrey M ^a   Wheless, James W ^a,b   Baumgartner, James E ^a   Thomas, Azreena B ^a   Brookshire, Bonnie L ^a   L Clifton, Guy ^a   Willmore, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Disconnection syndrome; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SPLIT BRAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031432734     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121264     Document Type: Article

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