The clinical course after stereotactic radiosurgical amygdalohippocampectomy with neuroradiological correlates

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 336-344

  Hoggard, Nigel ^a   Wilkinson, Iaian D ^a   Griffiths, Paul D ^a   Vaughan, Paul ^b   Kemeny, Andras A ^b   Rowe, Jeremy G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance; Spectroscopy; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPHASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SEIZURE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41749110443     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000316000.96140.12     Document Type: Article

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