Treatment of epileptogenic cavernomas: Surgery versus radiosurgery

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-120

  Hsu, Peng Wei ^a,b   Chang, Cheng Nen ^a   Tseng, Chen Kan ^a   Wei, Kuo Cheng ^a   Wang, Chun Chieh ^a   Chuang, Chi Cheng ^a   Huang, Yin Cheng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cavernoma; Epilepsy; Linear accelerator radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENIC CAVERNOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347407622     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103126     Document Type: Article

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