Symptomatic epilepsy in children with poroencephalic cysts secondary to perinatal middle cerebral artery occlusion

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 922-930

  Guzzetta, Francesco ^a   Battaglia, Domenica ^a   Di Rocco, Concezio ^a   Caldarelli, Massimo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corticectomy; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; MCA occlusion; Poroencephalic cyst

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYGROMA; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROIMAGING; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SPIKE WAVE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE;

EID: 33746277814     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0150-3     Document Type: Article

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