Practice parameter: Temporal lobe and localized neocortical resections for epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 741-751

  Engel Jr , Jerome ^a   Wiebe, Samuel ^b   French, Jacqueline ^b   Sperling, Michael ^b   Williamson, Peter ^b   Spencer, Dennis ^b   Gumnit, Robert ^b   Zahn, Catherine ^b   Westbrook, Edward ^b   Enos, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LOCALIZED NEOCORTICAL RESECTION; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037630198     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.48202.x     Document Type: Review

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