The duration of temporal lobe epilepsy and seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery

Seizure

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 261-263

  Lowe, Natalie Marie ^a   Eldridge, Paul ^b   Varma, Thelekat ^b   Wieshmann, Udo C ^b  

^a SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b THE WALTON CENTRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duration; Epilepsy; Surgery; Temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENGEL SCALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952584873     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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