Epilepsy surgery and vagal nerve stimulation: What all neurologists should know

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-363

  Balabanov, Antoaneta ^a   Rossi, Marvin A ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe epilepsy; Intractable epilepsy; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Neurostimulation; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

COMORBIDITY; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

DRUG RESISTANCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 49149095858     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1079340     Document Type: Review

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