Vagus nerve stimulation: Predictors of seizure freedom

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 384-389

  Janszky, J ^a   Hoppe, M ^a   Behne, F ^a   Tuxhorn, I ^a   Pannek, H W ^a   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ETIRACETAM;

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 14544303624     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.037085     Document Type: Article

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