Epilepsy surgery in children with seizures arising from the rolandic cortex

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1450-1461

  Limbrick, David D ^a,c   Behdad, Amir ^b   Bertrand, Mary E ^a   Smyth, Matthew D ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

MST; Pediatric epilepsy; Sensory motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROLANDIC CORTEX; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66849101962     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01868.x     Document Type: Article

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