Recent advances in candidate selection for pediatric epilepsy surgery

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 178-186

  Duchowny, Michael ^a,b  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Miami Children's Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HAMARTOMA; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; OHTAHARA SYNDROME; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 0033802915     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/spen.2000.9214     Document Type: Article

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