Temporal lobe tumoral epilepsy: Characteristics and predictors of surgical outcome

Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 636-641

  Zaatreh, Megdad M ^a   Firlik, Katrina S ^a   Spencer, Dennis D ^a   Spencer, Susan S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; ONSET AGE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042335822     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000079374.78589.1B     Document Type: Review

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