The current state of epilepsy surgery

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-161

  Boling, Warren ^a   Olivier, Andre ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HUMAN; IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031922647     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-199804000-00013     Document Type: Review

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