Surgery for medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy during early life

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-87

  Maton, Bruno ^a   Jayakar, Prasanna ^a   Resnick, Trevor ^b   Morrison, Glenn ^b   Ragheb, John ^b   Duchowny, Michael ^a,b  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical resection; Epilepsy surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Young children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549022669     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01315.x     Document Type: Article

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