Race/ethnicity: A predictor of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery outcome?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 486-490

  Burneo, Jorge G ^a   Knowlton, Robert C ^b   Martin, Roy ^b   Edward Faught, R ^b   Kuzniecky, Ruben I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Ethnicity; Health care disparities; Outcome; Race; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744450634     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.06.016     Document Type: Article

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