SEEG-guided thermocoagulations: A palliative treatment of nonoperable partial epilepsies

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 1719-1726

  Catenoix, H ^a,b   Mauguiere F ^a,b,d   Guenot M ^a,b,d   Ryvlin, P ^a,b,c,f   Bissery, A ^b,e,g   Sindou, M ^a,b,c   Isnard, J ^a,b,c,d  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Institut Federatif des Neurosciences de Lyon   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^f CTRS IDEE ^*  (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSESTHESIA; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; THERMOCOAGULATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149235673     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000335166.20451.88     Document Type: Article

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