Outcome and long term follow-up after corpus callosotomy in childhood onset intractable epilepsy

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1322-1327

  Turani, Güzide ^a   Yalnızoğlu, Dilek ^a   Genç Açıkgöz, Demet ^a   Akalan, Nejat ^a   Topçu, Meral ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Epilepsy surgery; Pediatric epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744910556     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0045-3     Document Type: Article

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