Patients with Temporoparietal Ictal Symptoms and Inferomesial EEG Do Not Benefit from Anterior Temporal Resection

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 230-236

  Aghakhani, Yahya ^a   Rosati, Anna ^a   Dubeau, François ^a   Olivier, André ^a   Andermann, Frederick ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal resection; Epileptiform activity; Intracranial EEG monitoring; Intractable epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL RESECTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCALP; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 1542723648     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.43003.x     Document Type: Review

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