Is streamlined evaluation of children for epilepsy surgery possible?

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1340-1347

  Patil, Shekhar G ^a,b,c   Cross, J Helen ^b,c   Kling Chong, W ^c   Boyd, Stewart G ^b,c   Harkness, William J ^b,c   Neville, Brian G R ^a,b,c   Scott, Rod C ^a,b,c  

^a YOUNG EPILEPSY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Decision; Epilepsy surgery; MRI; Video telemetry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIDEO ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRAIN; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 48149111167     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01538.x     Document Type: Article

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