Surgical indication for refractory childhood epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2000, Pages 21-25

  Oguni, Hirokazu ^a   Mukahira, Kyoko ^a   Tanaka, Teruyuki ^a   Awaya, Yutaka ^b   Saito, Kayoko ^a   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^c   Oda, Masaya ^c   Arai, Nobutaka ^d   Suzuki, Ichiro ^e   Osawa, Makiko ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seibo Byoin   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catastrophic infantile epilepsy; Children and infants; Epilepsy surgery; Medically refractory seizures; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MORBIDITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0034529959     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.2000.tb02214.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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