Subtemporal hippocampectomy preserving the basal temporal language area for intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: Preliminary results

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1347-1353

  Mikuni, Nobuhiro ^a   Miyamoto, Susumu ^a   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Satow, Takeshi ^a   Taki, Junya ^a   Takahashi, Jun ^a   Ohigashi, Yoshitaka ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basal temporal language area; Hippocampectomy; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Subtemporal approach; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL TEMPORAL LANGUAGE AREA; BRAIN REGION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTEMPORAL HIPPOCAMPECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33746924884     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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