Long term outcome of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: Analyses of 140 consecutive patients

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 486-494

  Jutila, L ^a   Vapalahti, M ^b   Ylinen, A ^a   Immonen, A ^b   Mervaala, E ^b   Partanen, J ^b   Partanen, K ^b   Puranen, M ^b   Kalviainen R ^a   Alafuzoff, I ^b   Hurskainen, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC AURA; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036828763     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.73.5.486     Document Type: Article

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