Selection criteria and preoperative investigation of patients with focal epilepsy who lack a localized structural lesion

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 219-226

  Duchowny, M ^a   Jayakar, P ^a   Koh, S ^a  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Functional neuroimaging; Intractable epilepsy; Partial seizures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MENINGITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0034487614     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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