Extended, one-stage callosal section for treatment of refractory secondarily generalized epilepsy in patients with lennox-gastaut and lennox-like syndromes

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 371-374

  Cukiert, Arthur ^a,b   Burattini, Jose Augusto ^a   Mariani, Pedro Paulo ^a   Câmara, Ródio Brandão ^a   Seda, Lauro ^a   Baldauf, Cristine Mella ^a   Argentoni, Meire ^a   Baise Zung, Carla ^a   Forster, Cássio Roberto ^a   Mello, Valeria Antakli ^a  

^a HOSPITAL BRIGADEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Generalized epilepsy; Outcome; Surgery; Technique

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATALEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATTENTION; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645296040     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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