An overview of surgery for chronic seizures

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-117

  Zimmerman, Richard S ^a   Sirven, Joseph I ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LOBECTOMY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNDROME; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0037215965     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/78.1.109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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