Epileptogenic temporal cavernous malformations: Operative strategies and postoperative seizure outcomes

Seizure

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 120-128

  Upchurch, Kristen ^a   Stern, John M ^a   Salamon, Noriko ^a   Dewar, Sandra ^a   Engel Jr , Jerome ^a,b   Vinters, Harry V ^a   Fried, Itzhak ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anteromedial temporal resection; Cavernous malformation; Epileptogenic; Lesionectomy; Surgery; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AMYGDALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EPILEPTOGENIC TEMPORAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS RESECTION; HUMAN; LESIONECTOMY; MALE; MESIAL TEMPORAL REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL CORTEX; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76549114389     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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