Epilepsy surgery patients with cortical dysplasia: Present and future therapeutic challenges

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 206-207

  Mathern, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SURGERY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; NEUROSURGERY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 59649091722     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000334359.83590.d4     Document Type: Editorial

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