Lateralizing semiology predicts the seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery in the posterior cortex

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2320-2331

  Boesebeck, F ^a   Schulz, R ^a   May, T ^b   Ebner, A ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b Epilepsy Research Foundation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Occipital; Outcome predictors; Parietal; Semiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036787595     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf236     Document Type: Article

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