Surgical outcome in patients with epilepsy with occult vascular malformations treated with lesionectomy

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 600-607

  Kraemer, Diana L Abson ^a   Griebel, May L ^b   Lee, Namsoo ^c   Friedman, Allan H ^c   Radtke, Rodney A ^c  

^a Epilepsy Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Iron; Lesion; Surgery; Vascular malformation

Indexed keywords

HEMOSIDERIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOSIDERIN; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEOCORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031749796     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01428.x     Document Type: Article

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