Medically intractable, localization-related epilepsy with normal MRI: Presurgical evaluation and surgical outcome in 43 patients

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 883-888

  Siegel, Adrian M ^a,b   Jobst, Barbara C ^a   Thadani, Vijay M ^a   Harker Rhodes, C ^a   Lewis, Petra J ^a   Roberts, David W ^a   Williamson, Peter D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Invasive evaluation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Normal MRI; Presurgical evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034856853     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.042007883.x     Document Type: Article

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