Epilepsy related to hypothalamic hamartomas: Surgical management with special reference to gamma knife surgery

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 881-895

  Régis, Jean ^a   Scavarda, Didier ^a   Tamura, Manabu ^a   Nagayi, Mariko ^a   Villeneuve, Nathalie ^a   Bartolomei, Fabrice ^a   Brue, Thierry ^a   Dafonseca, David ^a   Chauvel, Patrick ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Behaviour disorder; Disconnective surgery; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Gamma knife surgery; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartomas; Poikilothermia; Precocious puberty; Resective microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FORNIX; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPILEPSY; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HAMARTOMA; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EPILEPSY; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746307034     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0139-y     Document Type: Article

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