Successful selection of patients with intractable extratemporal epilepsy using non-invasive investigations

Seizure

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 573-576

  Shukla, Garima ^a   Bhatia, Manvir ^a   Singh, V P ^a   Jaiswal, Avadhesh ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a   Gaikwad, Shailesh ^a   Bal, C S ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Jain, Satish ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Extratemporal epilepsy; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DEATH; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INDIA; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENINGITIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0345099386     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(03)00084-0     Document Type: Article

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