Withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs after neocortical epilepsy surgery

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-238

  Park, Kyung Il ^a   Lee, Sang Kun ^b   Chu, Kon ^b   Jung, Keun Hwa ^b   Bae, Eun Kee ^b   Kim, Jin Soo ^b   Lee, Jung Ju ^c   Lee, Seo Young ^d   Chung, Chun Kee ^b  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Eulji General Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Kangwon National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOCORTEX; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949419655     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21884     Document Type: Article

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