Absolute spike frequency predicts surgical outcome in TLE with unilateral hippocampal atrophy

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 413-418

  Krendl, R ^a,b   Lurger, S ^a,b   Baumgartner, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ATROPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ATROPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 49049093044     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000310775.87331.90     Document Type: Article

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