Surgical treatment for temporal lobe epilepsy in patients over age 50 years

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 326-332

  Morioka, Takato ^a   Hashiguchi, Kimiaki ^a   Fukui, Kimiko ^a   Kawamura, Tadao ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a   Mihara, Futoshi ^a   Sasaki, Tomio ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Epilepsy surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSIS; SURGICAL RISK; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 3042836487     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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