Long-term outcome after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in 434 consecutive adult patients: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1135-1146

  Elsharkawy, Alaa Eldin ^a,b   Alabbasi, Abdel Hamid ^b   Pannek, Heinz ^a   Oppel, Falk ^a   Schulz, Reinhard ^a   Hoppe, Mathias ^a   Hamad, Ana Paula ^a,c   Nayel, Mohamed ^b   Issa, Ahmed ^b   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Focal cortical dysplasia; Gliosis; Hippocampal sclerosis; Long term outcome; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650829309     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.6.JNS17613     Document Type: Article

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