The selective amygdalohippocampectomy for intractable temporal limbic seizures: Historical vignette

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-185

  Yaşargil, M Gazi ^a   Krayenbühl, Niklaus ^a,b   Roth, Peter ^b   Hsu, Sanford P C ^a,c   Yaşargil, Dianne C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diagnostic advances; Mesial temporal epilepsy; Proximal transsylvian transamygdala approach; Selective amygdalohippocampectomy

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR LESION; VIGNETTE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTICONVULSANTS; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749132885     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.12.JNS081112     Document Type: Review

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