Outcome and predictors of interstitial radiosurgery in the treatment of gelastic epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-282

  Schulze Bonhage, A ^a   Trippel, M ^a   Wagner, K ^a   Bast, T ^b   Deimling, F V ^a   Ebner, A ^c   Elger, C ^d   Mayer, T ^e   Keimer, R ^f   Steinhoff, B J ^g   Spreer, J ^a   Fauser, S ^a   Ostertag, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^e Epilepsy Center Kleinwachau   (Germany)

^f OLGAHOSPITAL   (Germany)

^g Epilepsy Center Kork   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IODINE 125; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LETHARGY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; RISK FACTOR; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WEIGHT GAIN; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICS; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAMARTOMA; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LETHARGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 50549100924     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000318279.92233.82     Document Type: Article

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