Race/ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status as predictors of outcome after surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1106-1110

  Burneo, Jorge G ^a   Black, Lorie ^b   Martin, Roy ^b   Devinsky, Orrin ^c   Pacia, Steve ^c   Faught, Edward ^b   Vasquez, Blanca ^c   Knowlton, Robert C ^b   Luciano, Daniel ^c   Doyle, Werner ^c   Najjar, Sohuel ^c   Kuzniecky, Ruben I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747186650     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.8.1106     Document Type: Article

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