Incomplete resection of focal cortical dysplasia is the main predictor of poor postsurgical outcome

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-223

  Krsek, P ^a   Maton, B ^b   Jayakar, P ^b   Dean, P ^b   Korman, B ^b   Rey, G ^b   Dunoyer, C ^b   Pacheco Jacome, E ^b   Morrison, G ^b   Ragheb, J ^b   Vinters, H V ^c   Resnick, T ^b,d   Duchowny, M ^b,d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Miami Childrenr's Hospital   (United States)

^c Pathology and Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTELLIGENCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSIS; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59649094153     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000334365.22854.d3     Document Type: Article

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