Seizure outcome after surgery for epilepsy due to focal cortical dysplastic lesions

Seizure

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 420-427

  Alexandre Jr , Veriano ^a   Walz, Roger ^a   Bianchin, Marino M ^a   Velasco, Tonicarlo R ^a   Terra Bustamante, Vera C ^a   Wichert Ana, Lauro ^a   Araújo Jr , David ^a   Machado, Helio R ^a   Assirati Jr , João A ^a   Carlotti Jr , Carlos G ^a   Santos, Antonio C ^a   Serafini, Luciano N ^a   Sakamoto, Américo C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Focal cortical dysplasia; Intractable epilepsy; Malformation of cortical development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33746926035     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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