A retrospective study of the clinical outcomes and significant variables in the surgical treatment of temporal lobe tumor associated with intractable seizures

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-42

  Choi, Jae Young ^a,b   Chang, Jin Woo ^a   Park, Yong Gou ^a   Kim, Tai Seung ^a   Lee, Byung In ^a   Chung, Sang Sup ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b 21st Century Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Complete resection; Epilepsy; Temporal lobe tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542408928     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076659     Document Type: Article

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