Resective surgery in infants and young children with intractable epilepsy

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 142-146

  Bittar, Richard G ^a   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^a,b   Klug, Geoffrey L ^a   Hopkins, Ian J ^a   Simon Harvey, A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development; Epilepsy; Hemispherectomy; Infants; Resection; Seizures; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 0036233981     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jocn.2001.0928     Document Type: Article

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