The relationship between paired pulse magnetic MEP and surgical prognosis in patients with intractable epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-119

  Kamida, T ^a   Fujiki, M ^a   Baba, H ^b   Ono, T ^b   Abe, T ^a   Kobayashi, H ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; MEP; Paired pulse TMS; Surgical outcome; TLE

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PROGNOSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846828390     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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