Safety of intrahippocampal depth electrodes for presurgical evaluation of patients with intractable epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 922-929

  Fernández, Guillén ^a,b   Hufnagel, Andreas ^a   Van Roost, Dirk ^a   Helmstaedter, Christoph ^a   Wolf, Helmut K ^a   Zentner, Josef ^a   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depth electrodes; Epilepsy surgery; Hippocampus; Memory; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1842377429     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01258.x     Document Type: Article

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