Normalization of quality of life three years after temporal lobectomy: A controlled study

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 928-933

  Mikati, Mohamad A ^a   Comair, Youssef G ^a   Rahi, Amal ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; QOL; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BEIWUSINE A; DITERPENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE EAST; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WELLBEING; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARAB; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; LEBANON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ANTICONVULSANTS; ARABS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DITERPENES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEBANON; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745236832     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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