Refractory generalized seizures: Response to corpus callosotomy and vagal nerve stimulation

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-122

  Nei, Maromi ^a,c   O'Connor, Michael ^a   Liporace, Joyce ^b   Sperling, Michael R ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Riddle Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Epilepsy surgery; Generalized epilepsy; Vagal nerve stimulator

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33645037516     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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