Peri-ictal SPECT and surgical treatment for intractable epilepsy related to schizencephaly

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2426-2428

  Cascino, Gregory D ^a,b   Buchhalter, J R ^a,b   Sirven, J I ^a,c   So, E L ^a,b   Drazkowski, J F ^a,c   Zimmerman, R S ^a,c   Raffel, C ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 11144334664     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000147262.70507.76     Document Type: Article

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