Patients with epileptic seizures and cerebral lesions who underwent lesionectomy restricted to or associated with the adjacent irritative area

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 856-864

  Rassi Neto, Aziz ^a,b   Ferraz, Fernando P ^a   Campos, Carlos R ^a   Braga, Fernando M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electrocorticography; Epilepsy surgery; Epilepsy tumors; Lesionectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032976812     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00791.x     Document Type: Article

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