Experience with vagus nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy: Some questions and answers

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 489-495

  Amar, Arun Paul ^a   Heck, Christi N ^a   Degiorgio, Christopher M ^a   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Vagus nerve; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0032793262     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.489     Document Type: Review

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