Resective surgery for hypothalamic hamartoma

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 281-286

  Polkey, Charles E ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Complications; Epilepsy; Gelastic epilepsy; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Outcome; Precocious puberty; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GELASTIC SEIZURE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HAMARTOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INTELLIGENCE; MICROSURGERY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEURONAVIGATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SEIZURE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1142310790     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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