Outcome after corpus callosotomy in children with injurious drop attacks and severe mental retardation

Brain and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 577-585

  Rathore, Chaturbhuj ^a   Abraham, Mathew ^a   Rao, Ravi Mohan ^a   George, Annamma ^a   Sankara Sarma, P ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Callosotomy; Children; Drop attacks; Epilepsy surgery; Lennox Gastaut syndrome; Mental retardation; Outcome; Severe epilepsy with multiple independent spike foci

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548214221     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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