Revisiting the role of magnetoencephalography in epilepsy

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-186

  Baumgartner, Christoph ^a   Pataraia, Ekaterina ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Language; Magnetoencephalography; Presurgical evaluation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; COST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 33645065374     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wco.0000218236.44969.67     Document Type: Review

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