Early-onset symptomatic focal epilepsy: A dilemma in the timing of surgery

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-361

  Desai, Neely ^a   Pressler, Ronit M ^a   Jolleff, Nicola ^a   Clark, Maria ^a   Neville, Brain ^a   Eltze, Christin ^a   Harkness, William ^a   Cross, J Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; Epilepsy surgery; Focal cortical dysplasia; Seizures; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PYRIDOXINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANTILE SPASM; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARIETAL LOBE; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 57049150862     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2008.0214     Document Type: Article

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