Ganglioglioma and intractable epilepsy: Clinical and neurophysiologic features and predictors of outcome after surgery

Epilepsia

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 307-313

  Morris, H H ^a   Matkovic, Z ^a   Estes, M L ^a   Prayson, R A ^a   Comair, Y G ^a   Turnbull, J ^a   Najm, I ^a   Kotagal, P ^a   Wyllie, E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasm; Epilepsy surgery; Ganglioma; Intractable epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AMOBARBITAL; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031890018     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1998.tb01378.x     Document Type: Article

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