The use of stereotactic radiosurgery to treat intractable childhood partial epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 292-300

  Dunoyer, Catalina ^a   Ragheb, John ^a,b   Resnick, Trevor ^a,b   Alvarez, Luis ^a   Jayakar, Prasanna ^a   Altman, Nolan ^a   Wolf, Aizik ^c   Duchowny, Michael ^a,b  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Neurosurgery of Doctor's Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood epilepsy; Gamma knife; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Intractable epilepsy; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036208006     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.06501.x     Document Type: Article

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