Chronic epilepsy associated with temporal tumors: Long-term surgical outcome

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ruban, Dmitry ^a   Byrne, Richard W ^a   Kanner, Andres ^b   Smith, Michael ^b   Cochran, Elizabeth J ^c   Roh, David ^a   Whisler, Walter W ^a  

^a Departments of Neurosurgery   (United States)

^b Neurology   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic epilepsy; Low grade glioma; Temporal lobe tumor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349241868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.5.FOCUS0998     Document Type: Article

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