Resective surgery for epileptogenic dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor in hemimegalencephaly

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 777-778

  Specchio, N ^a   Kahane, P ^b   Pasquier, B ^b   Tassi, L ^c   Guerrini, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EPILEPTOGENIC DYSEMBRYOPLASTIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 24644466667     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000174627.76924.0c     Document Type: Article

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