Rasmussen encephalitis: Long-term outcome after surgery

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 583-589

  Terra Bustamante, Vera C ^a,c   MacHado, Helio R ^a   Dos Santos Oliveira, Ricardo ^a   Serafini, Luciano N ^a   Souza Oliveira, Cecília ^a   Escorsi Rosset, Sara ^a   Yacubian, Elza Márcia Targas ^b   Naffah Mazzacoratti, Maria Da Graça ^b   Scorza, Carla A ^b   Cavalheiro, Esper A ^b   Scorza, Fulvio A ^b   Sakamoto, Américo C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Campus Universitário ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Intractable epilepsy; Pediatric population and epilepsy surgery; Rasmussen encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64249091921     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0795-1     Document Type: Article

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