Tailored anteromedial lobectomy in the treatment of refractory epilepsy of the temporal lobe: Long term surgical outcome and predictive factors

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 158-165

  Roberti, Fabio ^a   Potolicchio, Samuel J ^a   Caputy, Anthony J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lobectomy; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CALCULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ATROPHY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846171223     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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