Successful surgical treatment of insular epilepsy with nocturnal hypermotor seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-162

  Dobesberger, Judith ^a   Ortler, Martin ^a   Unterberger, Iris ^a   Walser, Gerald ^a   Falkenstetter, Tina ^a   Bodner, Thomas ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a   Bale, Reto ^a   Fiegele, Thomas ^a   Donnemiller, Eveline ^a   Gotwald, Thaddaeus ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hypermotor seizures; Insular epilepsy; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INSULA; INSULAR EPILEPSY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOCTURNAL HYPERMOTOR SEIZURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; SLEEP DISORDERS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549022258     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01426.x     Document Type: Article

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