Disconnecting surgical treatment of hypothalamic hamartoma in children and adults with refractory epilepsy and proposal of a new classification

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 61-68

  Delalande, Olivier ^a   Fohlen, Martine ^a  

^a Unite de Neurochirurgie Pediatrique   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Disconnecting surgery; Gelastic epilepsy; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISCONNECTING SURGERY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOSURGERY; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; LAUGHTER; MALE;

EID: 0037296450     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.61     Document Type: Article

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