Gamma knife surgery for hypothalamic hamartomas accompanied by medically intractable epilepsy and precocious puberty: Experience in Mexico

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 53-55

  Barajas, Marco A ^a   Ramírez Guzmán, Maria G ^a   Rodríguez Vázquez, Carlos ^a   Toledo Buenrostro, Vinicio ^a   Cuevas Solórzano, Abel ^a   Rodríguez Hernández, Gabriel ^a  

^a Hospital San Javier   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Gamma knife surgery; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SLEEP PATTERN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; BRAIN DISEASE; EPILEPSY; ETHNOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOSURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEXICO; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 13744259335     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.s_supplement.0053     Document Type: Article

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