Cerebral hemispherectomy: Hospital course, seizure, developmental, language, and motor outcomes

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1712-1721

  Jonas, R ^a   Nguyen, S ^a   Hu, B ^b   Asarnow, R F ^a   LoPresti, C ^a   Curtiss, S ^a   De Bode, S ^a   Yudovin, S ^a   Shields, W D ^a   Vinters, H V ^a   Mathern, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442702840     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000127109.14569.C3     Document Type: Article

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