Pediatric intractable epilepsy syndromes: Reason for early surgical intervention

Brain and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-78

  Liu, Shiyong ^a   An, Ning ^a   Yang, Hui ^a   Yang, Meihua ^a   Hou, Zhi ^a   Liu, Lihong ^a   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Epilepsy syndromes; Intractable epilepsy; Multilobe resection; Pediatric patients

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; WEST SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846497924     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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