Radiosurgical posterior corpus callosotomy in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 312-315

  Smyth, Matthew D ^a   Klein, Eric E ^b   Dodson, W Edwin ^a   Mansur, David B ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosotomy; Epilepsy surgery; Gamma knife; Pediatric neurosurgery; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; SYNDROME;

CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; SYNDROME;

EID: 34248563022     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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