Surgical pathologic findings of extratemporal-based intractable epilepsy: A study of 133 consecutive resections

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 545-549

  Frater, John L ^a   Prayson, Richard A ^a   Morris III, Harold H ^a   Bingaman, William E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; TERATOMA; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEURONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034037989     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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