Seizure characteristics and control after microsurgical resection of supratentorial cerebral cavernous malformations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Chang, Edward F ^a   Gabriel, Rodney A ^a   Potts, Matthew B ^a   Garcia, Paul A ^b   Barbaro, Nicholas M ^a   Lawton, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavernous malformation; Engel score; Epilepsy electrocorticography; Microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651159363     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000346648.03272.07     Document Type: Article

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