What happens now? Ongoing outcome after post-temporal lobectomy seizure recurrence

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1671-1673

  McIntosh, Anne M ^a,b   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750984526     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000242735.24539.33     Document Type: Article

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