Long-term and late seizure outcome after surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-58

  Pimentel, José ^a   Bentes, Carla ^a   Campos, Alexandre ^a   Ferreira, A Gonçalves ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Seizure recurrence; Surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; BRAIN; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952295466     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2010.0302     Document Type: Article

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