Outcome after hemispherectomy in hemiplegic adult patients with refractory epilepsy associated with early middle cerebral artery infarcts

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1381-1384

  Cukiert, Arthur ^a,b   Cukiert, Cristine Mella ^a   Argentoni, Meire ^a   Baise Zung, Carla ^a   Forster, Cássio Roberto ^a   Mello, Valeria Antakli ^a   Burattini, José Augusto ^a   Mariani, Pedro Paulo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL BRIGADEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Neurosurgery   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adults; Hemispherectomy; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66849097959     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01795.x     Document Type: Article

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