Emergency transcallosal resection of hypothalamic hamartoma for "status gelasticus"

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 592-594

  Ng, Yu Tze ^a   Rekate, Harold L ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LORAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; TOPIRAMATE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMA; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SEIZURE; STATUS GELASTICUS; TRANSCALLOSAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16344372878     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.64604.x     Document Type: Article

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