Surgical treatment for intractable epilepsy caused by cavernous angioma in the temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 439-445

  Arita, K ^a   Kurisu, K ^a   Iida, K ^a   Hanaya, R ^a   Sugiyama, K ^a   Akimitsu, T ^a   Takeshita, S ^a   Kiura, Y ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavernous angioma; Intractable epilepsy; Surgical treatment; Tailored resection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033856209     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.439     Document Type: Article

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