Gamma knife surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1551-1556

  Régis, Jean ^a   Bartolomei, Fabrice ^a,b   Rey, Marc ^a   Genton, Pierre ^b   Dravet, Charlotte ^b   Semah, Franck ^c   Gastaut, Jean Louis ^b   Chauvel, Patrick ^b   Peragut, Jean Claude ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE SAINT PAUL   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdalohippocampectomy; Gamma knife; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Radionecrosis; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SAFETY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032704642     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb02039.x     Document Type: Article

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