Longitudinal follow-up in 145 patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy treated surgically between 1984 and 1995

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1417-1423

  Salanova, Vicenta ^a,b   Markand, Omkar ^a   Worth, Robert ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term follow up; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN TUMOR; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHASIA; DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032823108     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb02014.x     Document Type: Article

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