Surgical treatment of late-onset post-traumatic partial seizures in a child

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 434-437

  Suárez, Julio César ^a   Bulacio, Juan Carlos ^b   Armelini, Pedro ^a   Sfaello, Zenón Milciades ^b   Viano, Juan Carlos ^a   Herrera, Enrique J ^a   Ballarino, Lucrecia ^b   Bergallo, Roberto ^a   Suárez, Maria S ^a  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Argentina)

^b CETES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Children; Epilepsy surgery; Mesial structure; Partial seizures; Posttraumatic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242876115     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-003-0885-z     Document Type: Article

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