Focal cortical resections for the treatment of extratemporal epilepsies in children

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 97-106

  Ramesha, Kallakatta ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Extratemporal; Focal resections

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1;

ANTEROMESIAL TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ASTROCYTOMA; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXTRATEMPORAL EPILEPSY; FOCAL CORTICECTOMY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; GYRECTOMY; HAMARTOMA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMIMEGALENCEPHALY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HETEROTOPIA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOTHALAMUS TUMOR; LESIONECTOMY; MICROGYRIA; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACHYGYRIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SEIZURE; SELECTIVE AMYDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TOPECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 43449102821     PISSN: 18171745     EISSN: 19983948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.40597     Document Type: Review

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