Efficacy of surgical treatment of de novo, adult-onset, cryptogenic, refractory focal status epilepticus

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 895-901

  Costello, Daniel J ^a   Simon, Mirela V ^a   Eskandar, Emad N ^a   Frosch, Matthew P ^a   Henninger, Heidi L ^b   Chiappa, Keith H ^a   Cole, Andrew J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745103199     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.6.895     Document Type: Article

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