Medically refractory epilepsy associated with temporal lobe ganglioglioma: Characteristics and postoperative outcome

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 648-654

  Radhakrishnan, Ashalatha ^a   Abraham, Mathew ^a   Radhakrishnan, Venkataraman V ^a   Sarma, Sankara P ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Ganglioglioma; Seizure outcome; Temporal lobe; Tumoral epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748794511     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.10.014     Document Type: Article

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