Improving quality of life with epilepsy surgery: The seizure outcome is the key to success

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 1967-1968

  Cascino, Gregory D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDITORIAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INJURY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECALL; REMISSION; SUDDEN DEATH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249899434     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000268067.70492.8b     Document Type: Editorial

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