Language recovery after left hemispherectomy in children with late-onset seizures

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 579-586

  Boatman, Dana ^a,b   Freeman, John ^a   Vining, Eileen ^a   Pulsifer, Margaret ^a   Miglioretti, Diana ^a   Minahan, Robert ^a   Carson, Benjamin ^a   Brandt, Jason ^a   McKhann, Guy ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0032878583     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(199910)46:4<579::AID-ANA5>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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