Ictal EEG remains the prominent predictor of seizure-free outcome after temporal lobectomy in epileptic patients with normal brain MRI

Seizure

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 631-636

  Tatum IV, William O ^a   Benbadis, Selim R ^a   Hussain, Aatif ^c   Al Saadi, Sam ^a   Kaminski, Brett ^e   Heriaud, Leanne S ^d   Vale, Fernando L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Ictal EEG; Intractable epilepsy; Lobectomy; Normal MRI; Predictor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 58249091208     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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