Disconnective hemispherectomy for hemispheric dysplasia

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Villemure, Jean Guy ^b   Meagher Villemure, Kathleen ^c   Montes, Jose Luis ^c   Farmer, Jean Pierre ^c   Broggi, Giovanni ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Functional hemispherectomy; Hemimegalencephaly; Hemispherectomy; Hemispheric dysplasia; Peri insular hemispherotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0141960159     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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