Interstitial radiosurgery in the treatment of gelastic epilepsy due to hypothalamic hamartomas

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 644-647

  Schulze Bonhage, A ^a   Homberg, V ^a   Trippel, M ^a   Keimer, R ^b   Elger, C E ^c   Warnke, P C ^a   Ostertag, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Olgahospital Stuttgart ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC AURA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 1342309489     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000110194.77056.65     Document Type: Article

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