Hemispherotomy: Efficacy and analysis of seizure recurrence - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 323-332

  Limbrick Jr , David D ^a   Narayan, Prithvi ^b   Powers, Alexander K ^a   Ojemann, Jeffrey G ^c   Tae, Sung Park ^a   Bertrand, Mary ^a   Smyth, Matthew D ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Princeton Brain and Spine Care   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disconnection; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Hemispherectomy; Hemispherotomy; Insula; Pediatric neurosurgery; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHEROTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349667398     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.5.PEDS0942     Document Type: Article

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