Postoperative quality of life outcome and employment in patients undergoing resection of epileptogenic lesions detected by magnetic resonance imaging

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 281-285

  Moritake, Kouzo ^a   Mikuni, Nobuhiro ^b   Akiyama, Yasuhiko ^a   Nagai, Hidemasa ^a   Maruyama, Nobuyuki ^a   Takada, Daikei ^a   Daisu, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nagasako, Noriko ^a   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Employment; Epilepsy surgery; Long term outcome; Magnetic resonance imaging; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EMPLOYMENT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049085643     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.281     Document Type: Article

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