Morbidity in epilepsy surgery: An experience based on 2449 epilepsy surgery procedures from a single institution: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1111-1123

  Tanriverdi, Taner ^a   Ajlan, Abdulrazag ^a   Poulin, Nicole ^a   Olivier, Andre ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complication; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Intracranial electrode; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHILD; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; DYSLEXIA; DYSPHASIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION RISK; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENINGITIS; MINOR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OTITIS; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCALP INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67149115611     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.8.JNS08338     Document Type: Article

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