Clinical outcome of epilepsy surgery

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-178

  Polkey, Charles E ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Epilepsy; Outcome; QOL; Stimulation; Surgery; Vagus

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CALLOSTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CHILD; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842610165     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200404000-00015     Document Type: Review

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