Epilepsy Surgery for the Neurocutaneous Disorders

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-67

  Hartman, Adam L ^a   Kossoff, Eric H ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

focal cortical resection; hemispherectomy; intracranial monitoring; PET

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NEVUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHAKOMATOSIS; SEIZURE; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES;

EID: 33745493128     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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