Factors influencing seizures in adult patients with supratentorial astrocytic tumors

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 589-594

  Hwang, S L ^a   Lin, C L ^a   Lee, K S ^a   Lieu, A S ^a   Kuo, T H ^b   Chang, C Z ^a   Yen, C P ^a   Lin, C K ^a   Loh, J K ^a   Huang, T Y ^a   Howng, Shen Long ^a   Winkler, Peter A ^c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Division of Neurosurgery   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Astrocytoma; Brain tumor; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2942722479     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-004-0266-8     Document Type: Article

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