Outcome of extratemporal epilepsy surgery experience of a single center

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 516-525

  Elsharkawy, Alaa E ^a,b   Pannek, Heinz ^a   Schulz, Reinhard ^a   Hoppe, Mathias ^a   Pahs, Gerald ^a   Gyimesi, Csilla ^a   Nayel, Mohamed ^b   Issa, Ahmed ^b   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Extratemporal; Long term outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65849365114     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000324732.36396.E9     Document Type: Article

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