Osler vindicated: Glioma of the leg center with Jacksonian epilepsy; removal and cure, with a 50-year follow-up: Historical vignette

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 293-300

  Feindel, William ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; Cortical mapping; Cushing; Glioma; Osler; Penfield; Sherrington

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; CUSHING DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DURA MATER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HUMAN; JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY; LEG; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CANADA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; SEIZURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68849130333     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.3.17600     Document Type: Review

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