Predicting outcome following reoperation for medically intractable epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-106

  Holmes, Mark D ^a,b   Wilensky, Alan J ^a   Ojemann, Linda M ^a   Ojemann, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Intractable epilepsy; Reoperation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033118201     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/seiz.1998.0256     Document Type: Article

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