Surgical outcome of cortical dysplasias presenting with chronic intractable epilepsy: A 10-year experience

Neurology India

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-143

  Tripathi, Manjari ^a   Singh, Mahendra ^a   Padma, M ^a   Gaikwad, Shailesh ^a   Bal, C ^a   Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   Sarkar, C ^a   Gupta, Aditya ^a   Shukla, Garima ^a   Singh, V ^a   Jain, Satish ^a   Sharma, Bhawani ^a   Chandra, P ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cortical dysplasia; Developing country; Hemispherotomy; India; Intractable epilepsy; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DYSEMBRYONIC NEUROEPITHELIAL TUMOR; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47949112275     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.41990     Document Type: Article

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