Frequency, prognosis and surgical treatment of structural abnormalities seen with magnetic resonance imaging in childhood epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2785-2797

  Berg, Anne T ^a   Mathern, Gary W ^b,c   Bronen, Richard A ^d   Fulbright, Robert K ^d   Dimario, Francis ^e   Testa, Francine M ^d   Levy, Susan R ^d  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical malformation; Epidemiology; Epilepsy surgery; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Pharmacoresistance

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLIOMA; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SCLEROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349928573     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp187     Document Type: Article

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