Surgery for pharmacoresistant epilepsy in the developing world: A pilot study

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1256-1261

  Boling, Warren ^a,b   Palade, Adriana ^a   Wabulya, Angela ^c   Longoni, Nicoletta ^b   Warf, Benjamin ^d,e   Nestor, Scott ^f   Alpitsis, Rubina ^g   Bittar, Richard ^h   Howard, Charles ⁱ   Andermann, Frederick ^j  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Neurosurgery   (United States)

^c CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda   (Uganda)

^d NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WHEELING HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Departments of Neurology   (Netherlands)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ Benedictine Eye Hospital   (Uganda)

^j MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Developing world; Epilepsy surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PILOT PROJECTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549137159     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01984.x     Document Type: Article

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