Pre-surgical evaluation and surgical treatment in children with extratemporal epilepsy

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 945-959

  Centeno, Ricardo Silva ^a   Yacubian, Elza Marcia ^a   Sakamoto, Americo Ceiki ^a   Ferraz, Antonio Fernando Patriani ^a   Junior, Henrique Carrete ^a   Cavalheiro, Sergio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extratemporal pediatric epilepsy; Neuronavigation; Pediatric epilepsy surgery; Pre surgical evaluation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PEDIATRICS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746314540     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0145-0     Document Type: Review

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