Various findings in surgically treated epilepsy patients with dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors in comparison with those of patients with other low-grade brain tumors and other neuronal migration disorders

Epilepsia

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1379-1384

  Degen, Rolf ^a,b   Ebner, Aloys ^a   Lahl, Rainer ^a   Leonhardt, Stephanie ^a   Pannek, Heinz W ^a   Tuxhorn, Ingrid ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors (DNTs); Low grade brain tumors (without DNTs); Partial epilepsies; Surgery; Therapy resistance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEURONAL MIGRATION DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; TERATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; TERATOMA;

EID: 0036851887     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.15201.x     Document Type: Article

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