Predictors of outcome after temporal lobectomy for the treatment of intractable epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1938-1940

  Jeha, L E ^a   Najm, I M ^a   Bingaman, W E ^a   Khandwala, F ^a   Widdess Walsh, P ^a   Morris, H H ^a   Dinner, D S ^a   Nair, D ^a   Foldvary Schaeffer, N ^a   Prayson, R A ^a   Comair, Y ^b   O'Brien, R ^a   Bulacio, J ^c   Gupta, A ^d   Luders H O ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c Hospital de Ninos de la Santisima Trinidad   (Argentina)

^d Park Ridge Hospital Wound Care Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745920168     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000219810.71010.9b     Document Type: Article

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