Gamma knife radiosurgery for refractory medial temporal lobe epilepsy: Too little, too late?

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 1654-1655

  Spencer, Susan S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MEMORY DISORDER; MORTALITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REFRACTORY MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY;

EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENCE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43149122258     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000311272.33720.6b     Document Type: Editorial

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