Can early epilepsy surgery in infants improve their developmental outcome? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 662-663

  Paolicchi, Juliann M ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLONIC SEIZURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EARLY INTERVENTION; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL RISK; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 36949034728     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0659     Document Type: Short Survey

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