Frontal lobe epilepsy: Seizure semiology and presurgical evaluation

Practical Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 260-273

  McGonigal, Aileen ^a   Chauvel, Patrick ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

EID: 7244258808     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-7766.2004.00244.x     Document Type: Review

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