Why does surgery fail to cure limbic epilepsy? Seizure functional anatomy may hold the answer

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 93-99

  Bertram, Edward H ^a,b  

^a Epilepsy Institute of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cure; Epilepsy; Functional anatomy of epilepsy; Mechanism of cure; Surgery

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0344512369     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2003.10.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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