Outcome of frontal lobe epilepsy surgery in adults

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 97-106

  Elsharkawy, Alaa Eldin ^a,b   Alabbasi, Abdel Hamid ^c   Pannek, Heinz ^a   Schulz, Reinhard ^a   Hoppe, Mathias ^a   Pahs, Gerald ^a   Nayel, Mohamed ^b   Issa, Ahmed ^b   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Frontal lobe; Long term; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LESIONECTOMY; LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SUBPIAL TRANSECTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53249084351     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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