Efficacy and safety of radiosurgical callosotomy: A retrospective analysis

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1184-1191

  Feichtinger, Michael ^a   Schröttner, Oskar ^a   Eder, Hans ^a   Holthausen, Hans ^b   Pieper, Tom ^b   Unger, Frank ^a   Holl, Alexander ^a   Gruber, Lucia ^a   Körner, Eva ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^c   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Ott, Erwin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Department of Neuropediatrics and Neurorehabilitation ^*  (Germany)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Epilepsy; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CALLOSOTOMY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HEMISPHEROTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746151972     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00592.x     Document Type: Article

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