Study on surgical treatment of intractable childhood epilepsy

Brain and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 154-164

  Mukahira, Kyoko ^a   Oguni, Hirokazu ^a   Awaya, Yutaka ^b   Tanaka, Teruyuki ^a   Saito, Kayoko ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^c   Oda, Masaya ^c   Arai, Nobutaka ^d   Suzuki, Ichiro ^e   Osawa, Makiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seibo Byoin   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catastrophic partial seizures; Childhood epilepsy; Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy surgery; Intractable epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPLASIA; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031955042     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(98)00008-4     Document Type: Article

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