Successful resection of hypothalamic hamartoma with intractable gelastic seizures - By transcallosal subchoroidal approach

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1269-1276

  Bunyaratavej, Krishnapundha ^a,b   Locharernkul, Chaichon ^a   Tepmongkol, Supatporn ^a   Lerdlum, Sukalaya ^a   Shuangshoti, Shanop ^a   Khaoroptham, Surachai ^b  

^a Chulalongkorn Compreh Epilepsy Prog (CCEP) under the Patronage Prof Doctor HRH Prncs Chulabhorn   (Thailand)

^b KING CHULALONGKORN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Gelastic seizure; Hypothalamic hamartoma; SPECT; Subchoroidal; Transcallosal

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; INDEPENDENCE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE; SUPINE POSITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

CHILD; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748577986     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: 01252208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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