Surgery of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy presented with structural lesions

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 565-571

  Shih, Yang Hsin ^a   Lirng, Jiang Fong ^a   Yen, Der Jen ^a   Ho, Donald M ^a   Yiu, Chun Hing ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobectomy; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal lobe structural lesions

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TAIWAN; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VIDEORECORDING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0348156955     PISSN: 17264901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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