Five or More Acute Postoperative Seizures Predict Hospital Course and Long-term Seizure Control after Hemispherectomy

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 527-533

  Koh, Susan ^a   Nguyen, Snow ^a   Asarnow, Robert F ^a   LoPresti, Christine ^a   Yudovin, Sue ^a   Shields, W Donald ^a   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Mathern, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy; Hemimegalencephaly; Hemispherotomy; Infantile hemiplegia; Infarct; Rasmussen encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2342449338     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.50203.x     Document Type: Article

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