Neurosurgical management of medically intractable epilepsy associated with hypomelanosis of Ito [2]

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 329-331

  Placantonakis, Dimitris G ^a,b   Ney, Gershon ^a   Edgar, Mark ^a   Souweidane, Mark ^a   Hosain, Syed ^a   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LETTER; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13244252446     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.45804.x     Document Type: Letter

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