Tailored resections in occipital lobe epilepsy surgery guided by monitoring with subdural electrodes: Characteristics and outcome

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Caicoya, Anne G ^a   Macarrón, Jesús ^a   Albísua, Julio ^a   Serratosa, José M ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Occipital lobe epilepsy; Subdural electrodes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DURA MATER; ELECTRODE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SUBDURAL SPACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 35348915878     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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