Open radiofrequency ablation for the management of intractable epilepsy associated with sessile hypothalamic hamartoma

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 132-135

  Fujimoto, Y ^a   Kato, Amami ^a   Saitoh, Y ^a   Ninomiya, H ^a   Imai, K ^a   Hashimoto, N ^a   Kishima, H ^a   Maruno, M ^a   Yoshimine, T ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypothalamic hamartoma; Intractable epilepsy; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MALE; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 23144438965     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830267     Document Type: Article

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