Identifying potential surgical candidates in patients with evidence of bitemporal epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1075-1079

  Holmes, Mark D ^a,c   Miles, Andrew N ^b   Dodrill, Carl B ^a   Ojemann, George A ^a   Wilensky, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Intractable seizures; Long term monitoring; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING; WADA TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATIENT SELECTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0042071422     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.58302.x     Document Type: Article

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