Collateral brain damage, a potential source of cognitive impairment after selective surgery for control of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 323-326

  Helmstaedter, C ^a   Van Roost, D ^a   Clusmann, H ^a   Urbach, H ^a   Elger, C E ^a   Schramm, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0842330759     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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