Epilepsy surgery in infancy: A review of four cases

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-49

  Olavarria, Greg ^a   Petronio, Joseph A ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b St Paul Neurosurgical   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Infancy; Seizures; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038693426     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070880     Document Type: Review

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