Postoperative seizures after extratemporal resections and hemispherectomy in pediatric epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1038-1043

  Mani, J ^a   Gupta, A ^a   Mascha, E ^a   Lachhwani, D ^a   Prakash, K ^a   Bingaman, W ^a   Wyllie, E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; FEVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LIFE TABLE; LOG RANK TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EPILEPSY; FACIAL NERVE; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; ONSET AGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646106084     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000204236.96232.1c     Document Type: Article

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