Surgical outcome of corpus callosotomy in patients with drop attacks

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-71

  Maehara, Taketoshi ^a,b   Shimizu, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children; Daily function; Drop attacks; Satisfaction; Total callosotomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035112272     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.081422.x     Document Type: Article

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