Postoperative seizure control and antiepileptic drug use in pediatric epilepsy surgery patients: The UCLA experience, 1986-1997

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1740-1749

  Mathern, Gary W ^a,c   Giza, Christopher C ^a   Yudovin, Sue ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Peacock, Warwick J ^b   Shewmon, D Alan ^a   Shields, W Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Hemispherectomy; Neuronal migration disorders; Neurosurgery; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032806452     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb01592.x     Document Type: Article

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