The Prognostic Significance of Interictal Epileptiform Activity in Postoperative EEGs of Patients with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 137-142

  Kipervasser, Svetlana ^a   Nagar, Sari ^a   Chistik, Vladimir ^a   Kramer, Uri ^a   Fried, Itzhak ^a,b   Neufeld, Miri Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Epilepsy Surgery; Interictal Epileptiform EEG; Outcome; Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548238695     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940703800309     Document Type: Article

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