Surgical treatment of temporoparietooccipital cortical dysplasia in infants: Report of two cases

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 872-876

  Daniel, Roy Thomas ^a   Meagher Villemure, Kathleen ^a   Roulet, Eliane ^a   Villemure, Jean Guy ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Epilepsy; Hemispherectomy; Multilobar resection

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE CONTROL; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL RISK; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042859088     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.65603.x     Document Type: Article

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