Gelastic seizures treated by partial resection of a hypothalamic hamartoma

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 923-928

  Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Enomoto, Takao ^a   Uemura, Kazuya ^a   Tomono, Yuji ^a   Nose, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gelastic seizure; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Partial resection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031685026     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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